# obspy.core.util.misc

Various additional utilities for ObsPy.

copyright: | The ObsPy Development Team (devs@obspy.org)
license: | GNU Lesser General Public License, Version 3 (https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html)

Public Functions

`CatchOutput` | A context manager that captures input to stdout/stderr.
`SuppressOutput` | A context manager that suppresses output to stdout/stderr.
`TemporaryWorkingDirectory` | A context manager that changes to a temporary working directory.
`buffered_load_entry_point` | Return name entry point of group for dist or raise ImportError
`complexify_string` | Converts a string in the form “(real, imag)” into a complex type.
`factorize_int` | Calculate prime factorization of integer.
`flat_not_masked_contiguous` | Find contiguous unmasked data in a masked array along the given axis.
`get_untracked_files_from_git` | Tries to return a list of files (absolute paths) that are untracked by git in the repository.
`get_window_times` | Function calculating a list of times making up equal length windows from within a given time interval.
`guess_delta` | Estimate time delta in seconds between each sample from given channel name.
`limit_numpy_fft_cache` | NumPy’s FFT implementation utilizes caches to speedup subsequent FFTs of
`score_at_percentile` | Calculates the score at the given per percentile of the sequence a.
`to_int_or_zero` | Converts given value to an integer or returns 0 if it fails.

Private Functions

Warning

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

`_py36_windowsconsoleio_workaround` | This monkey patch prevents crashing Py3.6 under Windows while using

Classes

`CaptureIO` |
`MatplotlibBackend` | A helper class for switching the matplotlib backend.

### Thank you!

We would like to thank our contributors, whose efforts make this software what it is. These people have helped by writing code and documentation, and by testing. They have created and maintained this product, its associated libraries and applications, our build tools and our web sites.

#### 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)