Basic

class astropy.io.ascii.Basic[source]

Bases: BaseReader

Character-delimited table with a single header line at the top.

Lines beginning with a comment character (default=’#’) as the first non-whitespace character are comments.

Example table:

# Column definition is the first uncommented line
# Default delimiter is the space character.
apples oranges pears

# Data starts after the header column definition, blank lines ignored
1 2 3
4 5 6