VDIFFileWriter

class baseband.vdif.base.VDIFFileWriter(fh_raw)

Bases: baseband.vlbi_base.base.VLBIFileBase

Simple writer for VDIF files.

Adds write_frame and write_frameset methods to the basic VLBI binary file wrapper.

Methods Summary

close(self)
temporary_offset(self)	Context manager for temporarily seeking to another file position.
write_frame(self, data[, header])	Write a single frame (header plus payload).
write_frameset(self, data[, header])	Write a single frame set (headers plus payloads).

Methods Documentation

close(self)

temporary_offset(self)

Context manager for temporarily seeking to another file position.

To be used as part of a with statement:

with fh_raw.temporary_offset() [as fh_raw]:
    with-block

On exiting the with-block, the file pointer is moved back to its original position.

write_frame(self, data, header=None, **kwargs)

Write a single frame (header plus payload).

Parameters

datandarray or VDIFFrame

If an array, a header should be given, which will be used to get the information needed to encode the array, and to construct the VDIF frame.

headerVDIFHeader

Can instead give keyword arguments to construct a header. Ignored if data is a VDIFFrame instance.

**kwargs

If header is not given, these are used to initialize one.

write_frameset(self, data, header=None, **kwargs)

Write a single frame set (headers plus payloads).

Parameters

datandarray or VDIFFrameSet

If an array, a header should be given, which will be used to get the information needed to encode the array, and to construct the VDIF frame set.

headerVDIFHeader, list of same

Can instead give keyword arguments to construct a header. Ignored if data is a VDIFFrameSet instance. If a list, should have a length matching the number of threads in data; if a single header, thread_ids corresponding to the number of threads are generated automatically.

**kwargs

If header is not given, these are used to initialize one.