list of detector ID

[smXplorer]

What is the expected format of a detector list (e.g. for spectral_chx)? [0, 1, 2]? This should be added to the documentation.

[tritemio]

In the specs:

http://photon-hdf5.readthedocs.org/en/latest/phdata.html#detectors-specs

last paragraph is the info you are looking for.

[smXplorer]

Last paragraph reads:

All previous fields are arrays containing one or more Detector pixel IDs. For example, a 2-color smFRET measurement will have only one value in spectral_ch1 (donor) and one value in spectral_ch2 (acceptor). A 2-color smFRET measurement with polarization (4 detectors) will have 2 values in each of the spectral_chX and polarization_chX fields (where X=1 or 2). For a multispot smFRET measurement, spectral_chX will contain the list of donor/acceptor pixels (see Multi-spot measurements).

Where is my question addressed?

[tritemio]

What information is not clear? Among the possible HDF5 dataset types, all detector specs are arrays even when they contain a single element. If this is not what you ask please clarify.

[smXplorer]

My bad, I was looking for the format of the detector list in the yaml file.

[tritemio]

Ok, yes, detectors_specs are lists in YAML. A list in YAML can either have to the compact form:

[item1, item2, item3]

or the expanded form:

- item1
- item2
- item3

The YAML entry on Wikipedia has a nice summary on the YAML format.