seabirdfilehandler.bottlefile module

class seabirdfilehandler.bottlefile.BottleFile(path_to_file, only_header=False)

Bases: DataFile

Class that represents a SeaBird Bottle File. Organizes the files table information into a pandas dataframe. This allows the usage of this powerful library for statistics, visualization, data manipulation, export, etc.

create_dataframe()

Creates a dataframe out of the btl file. Manages the double data header correctly.

adding_timestamp_column()

Creates a timestamp column that holds both, Date and Time information.

setting_dataframe_dtypes()

Sets the types for the column values in the dataframe.

selecting_rows(df=None, statistic_of_interest=['avg'])

Creates a dataframe with the given row identifier, using the statistics column. A single string or a list of strings can be processed.

Parameters:

• df (pandas.Dataframe :) – the files Pandas representation (Default value = self.df)

• statistic_of_interest (list or str :) –

  collection of values of the ‘statistics’ column in self.df

  (Default value = [‘avg’])

reading_data_header()

Identifies and separatly collects the rows that specify the data tables headers.

add_station_and_event_column()

add_position_columns()