RST

class astropy.io.ascii.RST(header_rows=None)

Bases: FixedWidth

reStructuredText simple format table.

See: https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#simple-tables

Example:

>>> from astropy.table import QTable
>>> import astropy.units as u
>>> import sys
>>> tbl = QTable({"wave": [350, 950] * u.nm, "response": [0.7, 1.2] * u.count})
>>> tbl.write(sys.stdout,  format="ascii.rst")
===== ========
 wave response
===== ========
350.0      0.7
950.0      1.2
===== ========

Like other fixed-width formats, when writing a table you can provide header_rows to specify a list of table rows to output as the header. For example:

>>> tbl.write(sys.stdout,  format="ascii.rst", header_rows=['name', 'unit'])
===== ========
 wave response
   nm       ct
===== ========
350.0      0.7
950.0      1.2
===== ========

Currently there is no support for reading tables which utilize continuation lines, or for ones which define column spans through the use of an additional line of dashes in the header.

Methods Summary

read(table)	Read the table and return the results in a format determined by the outputter attribute.
write(lines)	Write table as list of strings.

Methods Documentation

read(table)

Read the table and return the results in a format determined by the outputter attribute.

The table parameter is any string or object that can be processed by the instance inputter. For the base Inputter class table can be one of:

• File name

• File-like object

• String (newline separated) with all header and data lines (must have at least 2 lines)

• List of strings

Parameters:

tablepython:str, python:file-like object, python:list

Input table.

Returns:

tableTable

Output table

write(lines)

Write table as list of strings.

Parameters:

tableTable

Input table data.

Returns:

linespython:list

List of strings corresponding to ASCII table