Why are channel groups only int?

Open alejoe91 opened this issue 3 years ago • 1 comments

See https://github.com/SpikeInterface/spikeinterface/blob/master/spikeinterface/core/baserecording.py#L493

Especially when setting with shank_ids, I think we should enable at least str, since shank ids could have a name

@samuelgarcia

Jul 15 '22 08:07 alejoe91

Yep we can also put str. I am OK with this. We could have something more explicit like 'probeXshankY' as group key in case of complex montage.

Jul 18 '22 07:07 samuelgarcia