Drop bad channels/ epochs. Gives RuntimeError: bad channel(s) ['Fp1'] marked do not exist in info

Hey guys,

want to mark channel ‘Fp1’ as bad, which works perfectly, but then afterwards when I call the mne.pick_types function, I get the RuntimerError: bad channel(s) [‘Fp1’] marked do not exist in info

# drop Fp1 channel
raw.info['bads'] = ['Fp1']

#work with eeg date, so eeg=True
picks_eeg = mne.pick_types(raw.info, meg=False, eeg=True, eog=False,
                           stim=False, exclude='bads')

Any idea what might the problem be?

Thanks in advance!!

[mmagnuski]

@Stoffander You’d probably want to rename your channels to remove the spaces. You can use raw.rename_channels:

remove_blanks = lambda s: s.replace(' ', '')
raw.rename_channels(remove_blanks)

[Chris-code1]

It worked. Thanks a lot!!! Classic amateur mistake 😉