MDF4¶
asammdf tries to emulate the mdf structure using Python builtin data types.
The header attibute is an OrderedDict that holds the file metadata.
The groups attribute is a dictionary list with the following keys:
data_group : DataGroup object
channel_group : ChannelGroup object
channels : list of Channel objects with the same order as found in the mdf file
channel_conversions : list of ChannelConversion objects in 1-to-1 relation with the channel list
channel_sources : list of SourceInformation objects in 1-to-1 relation with the channels list
data_block : DataBlock object
texts : dictionay containing TextBlock objects used throughout the mdf
channels : list of dictionaries that contain TextBlock objects ralated to each channel
- name_addr : channel name
- comment_addr : channel comment
channel group : list of dictionaries that contain TextBlock objects ralated to each channel group
- acq_name_addr : channel group acquisition comment
- comment_addr : channel group comment
conversion_tab : list of dictionaries that contain TextBlock objects related to TABX and RTABX channel conversions
- text_{n} : n-th text of the VTABR conversion
- default_addr : default text
conversions : list of dictionaries that containt TextBlock obejcts related to channel conversions
- name_addr : converions name
- unit_addr : channel unit_addr
- comment_addr : converison comment
- formula_addr : formula text; only valid for algebraic conversions
sources : list of dictionaries that containt TextBlock obejcts related to channel sources
- name_addr : source name
- path_addr : source path_addr
- comment_addr : source comment
The file_history attribute is a list of (FileHistory, TextBlock) pairs .
The channel_db attibute is a dictionary that holds the (data group index, channel index) pair for all signals. This is used to speed up the get_signal_by_name method.
The master_db attibute is a dictionary that holds the channel index of the master channel for all data groups. This is used to speed up the get_signal_by_name method.