# edf.event reading

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**Created:** [October 2, 2020, 10:01pm UTC](https://mne.discourse.group/t/edf-event-reading/2335 "2020-10-02T22:01:39Z")\
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To NME community,

I am working on EEG Motor Movement/Imagery Dataset Published: Sept. 9,  
2009. Version: 1.0.0 \<[https://physionet.org/content/eegmmidb/1.0.0/](https://physionet.org/content/eegmmidb/1.0.0/)\>.

reading .edf files is okey but the problem is with reading the events.

How can I read the\* .edf.event\* files?

Looking for your assistance.

Best regards.

Nibras Abo Alzahab,  
Biomedical Engineer  
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have a look at  
[http://moabb.neurotechx.com/docs/generated/moabb.datasets.PhysionetMI.html](http://moabb.neurotechx.com/docs/generated/moabb.datasets.PhysionetMI.html)

HTH  
Alex  
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Hello!

Or you could use MNE-Python's built-in loader for this dataset:

[https://mne.tools/stable/generated/mne.datasets.eegbci.load\_data.html#mne.datasets.eegbci.load\_data](https://mne.tools/stable/generated/mne.datasets.eegbci.load_data.html#mne.datasets.eegbci.load_data)

If you really need to use the original data files, note that the EDF files already contain events in annotation channels (accessible by raw.annotations) - you do \*not\* need to load the .event files because they contain the same events that are already present in the EDF files.

Clemens