File IO

swick.read_swc()

Reads an .swc file to create and return an SWC object.

Parameters:

path – the path to the .swc file to be read

Returns:

an SWC object containing the loaded data

Raises:

SWCFormatError – if the file does not adhere to the SWC format

swick.write_swc()

Writes an SWC object into an .swc file.

Parameters:

• path – the path to the .swc file to be written

• swc – the SWC object to be written to a file

• delimeter – separator for fields (tabs and spaces only)

• decimal_places – number of decimal places written for floats; if -1, uses as many as necessary for each field

Returns:

an SWC object containing the data to be written

Raises:

• ValueError – if delimeter or decimal_places values are invalid

• SWCFormatError – if the SWC object is invalid