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ENH: Export to BDF

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Description

Mostly putting here as a placeholder, I expect most discussion to happen in https://github.com/the-siesta-group/edfio/issues/62.

In short, we probably want to be able to export to BDF because this will be preferred by EMG-BIDS and thus soon MNE-BIDS. We should either add support to edfio for writing BDF (my preference), or use PyEDFLib (which we recently abandoned for edfio!) for writing BDF.

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Research direction

Start with the discussion in edfio issue 62, then review how mne-python currently uses edfio and the previously abandoned PyEDFLib path. The scope is unresolved between adding BDF writing to edfio and using PyEDFLib; done would mean an agreed implementation that exports BDF for the EMG-BIDS and MNE-BIDS use case.

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Tech stack
python
Domain
data
Issue type
Feature
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5/5
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Over a week
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Stale
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Needs clarification
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