obspy.io.ascii.core._write_tspair

_write_tspair(stream, filename, custom_fmt=None, **kwargs)[source]

Writes a ASCII TSPAIR file.

Warning

This function should NOT be called directly, it registers via the the write() method of an ObsPy Stream object, call this instead.

Parameters:

stream (Stream) – The ObsPy Stream object to write.
filename (str) – Name of file to write.
custom_fmt (str) – formatter for writing sample values. Defaults to None. Using this parameter will set TYPE value in header to CUSTOM and ObsPy will raise an exception while trying to read that file.

Example

>>> from obspy import read
>>> st = read()
>>> st.write("tspair.ascii", format="TSPAIR")  

TSPAIR Format Description

TSPAIR is a simple ASCII time series format. Each contiguous time series segment (no gaps or overlaps) is represented with a header line followed by data samples in time-sample pairs. There are no restrictions on how the segments are organized into files, a file might contain a single segment or many, concatenated segments either for the same channel or many different channels.

Header lines have the general form:

TIMESERIES SourceName, # samples, # sps, Time, Format, Type, Units

with

SourceName: “Net_Sta_Loc_Chan_Qual”, no spaces, quality code optional
# samples: Number of samples following header
# sps: Sampling rate in samples per second
Time: Time of first sample in ISO YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.FFFFFF format
Format: ‘TSPAIR’ (fixed)
Type: Sample type ‘INTEGER’, ‘FLOAT’ or ‘ASCII’
Units: Units of time-series, e.g. Counts, M/S, etc., may not contain spaces

Example TSPAIR file:

TIMESERIES NL_HGN_00_BHZ_R, 12 samples, 40 sps, 2003-05-29T02:13:22.043400, TSPAIR, INTEGER, Counts
2003-05-29T02:13:22.043400  2787
2003-05-29T02:13:22.068400  2776
2003-05-29T02:13:22.093400  2774
2003-05-29T02:13:22.118400  2780
2003-05-29T02:13:22.143400  2783
2003-05-29T02:13:22.168400  2782
2003-05-29T02:13:22.193400  2776
2003-05-29T02:13:22.218400  2766
2003-05-29T02:13:22.243400  2759
2003-05-29T02:13:22.268400  2760
2003-05-29T02:13:22.293400  2765
2003-05-29T02:13:22.318400  2767
...