Setting up mask outside data range raises an error

[nbeliy]

Not really a bug, but an annoyance.

When specifying a mask with

raw.add_mask_period(start, end)

If start or end falls outside the data range, an exception is raised:

ValueError: Attempting to set the stop time of a mask period after the actual stop time of the data.

Forcing to add a code to crop periods to the data.
This code could be executed by pyActigraphy instead.

[ghammad]

Hello @nbeliy

This is fixed in the develop branch:

In the filter module:

    L125: def add_mask_period(self, start, stop, error='raise'):
    L195: def add_mask_periods(self, input_fname, error='raise', *args, **kwargs):

The argument error can be set to raise (default) to raise an issue when the mask extends outside the data range, or to warn to simply issue a warning and continue.

Will be merged in the master code for the next release.