convnwb.utils.checks.clean_strings

convnwb.utils.checks.clean_strings(lst)

Helper function to clean a list of string values for adding to NWB.

Parameters:

lstlist

A list of (mostly) strings to be prepped for adding to NWB.

Returns:

list of str

Cleaned list.

Notes

Each element is checked:

• str types and made lower case and kept

• any other type is replaced with ‘none’ (as a string)

• the goal is to replace Python nan or None types for empty cells