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

READ: Set data_lines attribute to lines slice comprising table data values.

get_str_vals()

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

masks(cols)

READ: 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)

READ: Strip out comment lines and blank lines from list of lines

Parameters:

linespython:list

All lines in table

Returns:

linespython:list

List of lines

str_vals()

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

This sets the fill values and possibly column formats from the input formats={} keyword, then ends up calling table.pprint._pformat_col_iter() by a circuitous path. That function does the real work of formatting. Finally replace anything matching the fill_values.

Returns:

valuespython:list of python:list of python:str

write(lines)

Write self.cols in place to lines.

Parameters:

linespython:list

List for collecting output of writing self.cols.