Reference/API#

astropy.io.registry Package#

Unified I/O Registry.

`register_reader`(data_format, data_class, ...)	Register a reader function.
`register_writer`(data_format, data_class, ...)	Register a table writer function.
`register_identifier`(data_format, data_class, ...)	Associate an identifier function with a specific data type.
`unregister_reader`(data_format, data_class)	Unregister a reader function.
`unregister_writer`(data_format, data_class)	Unregister a writer function.
`unregister_identifier`(data_format, data_class)	Unregister an identifier function.
`get_reader`(data_format, data_class)	Get reader for `data_format`.
`get_writer`(data_format, data_class)	Get writer for `data_format`.
`get_formats`([data_class, readwrite])	Get the list of registered I/O formats as a `Table`.
`read`(cls, *args[, format, cache])	Read in data.
`write`(data, *args[, format])	Write out data.
`identify_format`(origin, data_class_required, ...)	Loop through identifiers to see which formats match.
`delay_doc_updates`(cls)	Contextmanager to disable documentation updates when registering reader and writer.

`UnifiedIORegistry`()	Unified I/O Registry.
`UnifiedInputRegistry`()	Read-only Unified Registry.
`UnifiedOutputRegistry`()	Write-only Registry.
`UnifiedReadWriteMethod`([fget, fset, fdel, doc])	Descriptor class for creating read() and write() methods in unified I/O.
`UnifiedReadWrite`(instance, cls, method_name)	Base class for the worker object used in unified read() or write() methods.
`IORegistryError`	Custom error for registry clashes.