BaseData

class astropy.io.ascii.BaseData

Bases: object

Base table data reader.

Attributes Summary

comment	Regular expression for comment lines
end_line	None, int, or a function of lines that returns None or int
fill_exclude_names
fill_include_names
fill_values
formats
start_line	None, int, or a function of lines that returns None or int
write_spacer_lines

Methods Summary

get_data_lines(lines)	Set the data_lines attribute to the lines slice comprising the table data values.
get_str_vals()	Return a generator that returns a list of column values (as strings) for each data line.
masks(cols)	Set fill value for each column and then apply that fill value
process_lines(lines)	Strip out comment lines and blank lines from list of lines
str_vals()	convert all values in table to a list of lists of strings
write(lines)

Attributes Documentation

comment = None

Regular expression for comment lines

end_line = None

None, int, or a function of lines that returns None or int

fill_exclude_names = None

fill_include_names = None

fill_values = [(<astropy.io.ascii.core.MaskedConstant object>, '')]

formats = {}

start_line = None

None, int, or a function of lines that returns None or int

write_spacer_lines = ['ASCII_TABLE_WRITE_SPACER_LINE']

Methods Documentation

get_data_lines(lines)

Set the data_lines attribute to the lines slice comprising the table data values.

get_str_vals()

Return a generator that returns a list of column values (as strings) for each data line.

masks(cols)

Set fill value for each column and then apply that fill value

In the first step it is evaluated with value from fill_values applies to which column using fill_include_names and fill_exclude_names. In the second step all replacements are done for the appropriate columns.

process_lines(lines)

Strip out comment lines and blank lines from list of lines

Parameters:

lines : list

All lines in table

Returns:

lines : list

List of lines

str_vals()

convert all values in table to a list of lists of strings

write(lines)