# obspy.core.inventory.network.Network

class `Network`(code, stations=None, total_number_of_stations=None, selected_number_of_stations=None, description=None, comments=None, start_date=None, end_date=None, restricted_status=None, alternate_code=None, historical_code=None, data_availability=None)

  Bases: `obspy.core.inventory.util.BaseNode`

  From the StationXML definition:
    This type represents the Network layer, all station metadata is contained within this element. The official name of the network or other descriptive information can be included in the Description element. The Network can contain 0 or more Stations.

  Attributes

  `__dict__` |
  `__doc__` | str(object=’‘) -> str
  `__hash__` |
  `__module__` | str(object=’‘) -> str
  `__weakref__` | list of weak references to the object (if defined)
  `alternate_code` | From the StationXML definition:
  `code` |
  `historical_code` | From the StationXML definition:
  `selected_number_of_stations` |
  `stations` |
  `total_number_of_stations` |

  Public Methods

  `copy` | Returns a deepcopy of the object.
  `get_channel_metadata` | Return basic metadata for a given channel.
  `get_contents` | Returns a dictionary containing the contents of the object.
  `get_coordinates` | Return coordinates and orientation for a given channel.
  `get_orientation` | Return orientation for a given channel.
  `get_response` | Find response for a given channel at given time.
  `is_active` | Checks if the item was active at some given point in time (time) and/or if it was active at some point during a certain time range (starttime, endtime).
  `plot` | Creates a preview map of all stations in current network object.
  `plot_response` | Show bode plot of instrument response of all (or a subset of) the network’s channels.
  `select` | Returns the `Network` object with only the

  Private Methods

  Warning

  Private methods are mainly for internal/developer use and their API might change without notice.

  `_repr_pretty_` |

  Special Methods

  `__dir__` | default dir() implementation
  `__eq__` |
  `__format__` | default object formatter
  `__getitem__` |
  `__init__` |
  type code: | str
  `__len__` |
  `__ne__` |
  `__new__` | Create and return a new object.
  `__reduce__` | helper for pickle
  `__reduce_ex__` | helper for pickle
  `__short_str__` |
  `__sizeof__` | size of object in memory, in bytes
  `__str__` |
  `__subclasshook__` | Abstract classes can override this to customize issubclass().

### Thank you!

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#### Contributors

- Ackerley, Nick
- Allgeyer, Sebastien
- Ammon, Charles J.
- Antunes, Emanuel
- Arnarsson, Ólafur St.
- Bank, Markus
- Barsch, Robert
- Behr, Yannik
- Bernardi, Fabrizio
- Bernauer, Felix
- Bes de Berc, Maxime
- Beyreuther, Moritz
- Boltz, Shawn
- Bonaimé, Sébastien
- Carothers, Lloyd
- Chamberlain, Calum
- Chambers, Derrick
- Chen, Zhao
- Clark, Adam
- Danecek, Peter
- Egdorf, Sven
- Engels, Fabian
- Ermert, Laura
- Eulenfeld, Tom

- Fabbri, Tommaso
- Falco, Nicholas
- Fee, Jeremy
- Grellier, Clément
- Grunberg, Marc
- Hammer, Conny
- Heimann, Sebastian
- Heiniger, Lukas
- Hope, Gaute
- Igel, Heiner
- Inza, Adolfo
- Isken, Marius
- Ketchum, David
- Koymans, Mathijs
- Kremers, Simon
- Kress, Victor
- Krieger, Lars
- Krischer, Lion
- Kula, Damian
- Käufl, Paul
- Köhler, Andreas
- Lecocq, Thomas
- Leeman, John
- Legovini, Paride

- Lesage, Philippe
- Li, Yulin
- Lomax, Anthony
- Lopes, Rui L.
- MacCarthy, Jonathan
- Maggi, Alessia
- Martin, Henri
- Medlin, Andrew
- Megies, Tobias
- Meschede, Matthias
- Michelini, Alberto
- Miller, Nathaniel C.
- Morgenstern, Bernhard
- Nof, Ran Novitsky
- Panning, Mark P.
- Parker, Tom
- Pestourie, Romain
- Rapagnani, Giovanni
- Reyes, Celso
- Ringler, Adam
- Rothenhäusler, Nicolas
- Russo, Emiliano
- Sales de Andrade, Elliott

- Satriano, Claudio
- Saul, Joachim
- Scheingraber, Chris
- Schneider, Simon
- Sippl, Christian
- Snoke, Arthur
- Stange, Stefan
- Stähler, Simon C.
- Sullivan, Benjamin
- Tian, Dongdong
- Trabant, Chad
- Trani, Luca
- Uieda, Leonardo
- Walker, Andrew
- Walther, Marcus
- Wassermann, Joachim
- Williams, Mark C.
- Winkelman, Andrew
- Zaccarelli, Riccardo
- Zad, Seyed Kasra Hosseini
- Zhu, Lijun
- van Driel, Martin
- van Wijk, Kasper

#### Funds

ObsPy was partially funded by the

- German Science Foundation (DFG) via grant DFG IG 16/9-1
- German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), GEOTECHNOLOGIEN grant 03G0646H.
- NERA project (Network of European Research Infrastructures for Earthquake Risk Assessment and Mitigation) under the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) grant agreement n° 262330
- Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics (LIAG)
- VERCE EU-FP7 project (no. 283543)