get_channel_type

gwpy.io.gwf.get_channel_type(

channel: str | Channel,

gwf: str | Path | IO,

backend: str | None = None,

) → Literal['adc', 'sim', 'proc']

Find the channel type in a given GWF file.

Requires a GWF backend library.

Parameters:

channelstr, Channel

Name of data channel to find.

gwfstr

GWF file to read.

backendstr, optional

The GWF backend to use. Default is ‘any’.

Returns:

ctypestr

the type of the channel (‘adc’, ‘sim’, or ‘proc’)

Raises:

ValueError

if the channel is not found in the table-of-contents