Format Support

Format	Read	Write	Fmt	Notes
AH-1	read_data		ah1
AH-2	read_data		ah2
ASDF event	read_asdf_evt	write_hdf5	asdf	k
ASDF timeseries	read_hdf5	write_hdf5	asdf	k
Bottle	read_data		bottle
Dataless SEED	read_meta		dataless
GeoCSV slist	read_data		geocsv.slist	u
GeoCSV tspair	read_data		geocsv	u
Lennartz ASCII	read_data		lennartz
Mini-SEED	read_data		mseed	o
PASSCAL SEG Y	read_data		passcal
QuakeML	read_qml	write_qml
RESP	read_meta		resp	u
SAC polezero	read_meta	writesacpz	sacpz	u
SAC timeseries	read_data	writesac	sac
SEG Y	read_data		segy	i
SeisIO	rseis	wseis
SLIST	read_data		slist
SUDS event	read_quake		suds	o
SUDS timeseries	read_data		suds	o
StationXML	read_meta	write_sxml	sxml
UW event	read_quake		uw
UW timeseries	read_data		uw
Win32	read_data		win32

Column Guide

Format is the most common abbreviated name for the data format
Read is the read command
- Most commands have two versions: in-place and out-of-place.
- The out-of-place command is given above and creates a new structure.
- The in-place command is the command in the column plus "!" (like "read_data!"); it modifies an existing data structure.
- Write is the write command for formats with write support.
Fmt is the format string passed to the read command
- This is always the first ASCII string in the command
- Example: read_meta!(S, "sacpz", "tmp.sac.pz")

k: write_hdf5 uses fmt as a keyword that defaults to "asdf"; this will become more relevant when support expands to other hdf5 (sub)formats
i: incomplete
- SEG Y rev 2 read support is NYI; send us test files if you need it!
o: out-of-scope blockettes/structures are skipped
u: UNIX-style text files only; uses a byte-wise parser and assumes lines end in "\n". DOS-style text files (whose lines end in "\r\n") must be converted with e.g. dos2unix(fname) or equivalent Windows Powershell command(s).