Added high-level functions

README.rst

@@ -76,6 +76,33 @@ The latest release, including source and binary packages for Linux,
 macOS and Windows, is available for download from the `Python Package Index`_.
 You can find source releases at the `Releases Page`_.
 
+
+Highlevel interface
+------------
+
+pyEDFlib includes an highlevel interface for easy access to read and write edf files.
+Additionally functionality as anonymizing, dropping or renaming channels can be found there.
+
+.. code-block:: Python
+
+	from pyedflib import highlevel
+
+	# write an edf file
+	signals = np.random.rand(5, 256*300)*200 # 5 minutes of random signal
+	channel_names = ['ch1', 'ch2', 'ch3', 'ch4', 'ch5']
+	signal_headers = highlevel.make_signal_headers(channel_names, sample_rate=256)
+	header = highlevel.make_header(patientname='patient_x', gender='Female')
+	highlevel.write_edf('edf_file.edf', signals, signal_headers, header)
+
+	# read an edf file
+	signals, signal_headers, header = highlevel.read_edf('edf_file.edf')
+	print(signal_headers[0]['sample_rate']) # prints 256
+
+	# drop a channel from the file and anonymize
+	highlevel.drop_channels('edf_file.edf', to_drop=['ch2', 'ch4'])
+	highlevel.anonymize('edf_file.edf')
+
+
 License
 -------
 

appveyor.yml

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ install:
   - "util\\appveyor\\build.cmd %PYTHON%\\python.exe -m pip install
      numpy --cache-dir c:\\tmp\\pip-cache"
   - "util\\appveyor\\build.cmd %PYTHON%\\python.exe -m pip install
-     Cython nose coverage matplotlib --cache-dir c:\\tmp\\pip-cache"
+     Cython nose coverage matplotlib dateparser tqdm --cache-dir c:\\tmp\\pip-cache"
 
 test_script:
   - "util\\appveyor\\build.cmd %PYTHON%\\python.exe setup.py build --build-lib build\\lib\\"

circle.yml

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ dependencies:
     - sudo apt-get install texlive-fonts-recommended
     - pip install -q --install-option="--no-cython-compile" Cython==0.23.4
     - pip install -q numpy
-    - pip install -q nose mpmath argparse Pillow codecov matplotlib Sphinx==1.5.5
+    - pip install -q nose mpmath argparse Pillow codecov matplotlib Sphinx==1.5.5 tqdm
     - git submodule init
     - git submodule update
     - python setup.py build

pyedflib/__init__.py

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 from ._extensions._pyedflib import *
 from .edfwriter import *
 from .edfreader import *
+from . import highlevel
 
 from . import data