check_ucd¶

astropy.io.votable.ucd.check_ucd(ucd, check_controlled_vocabulary=False, has_colon=False)[source]¶

Returns False if ucd is not a valid unified content descriptor.

Parameters:

ucdpython:str: The UCD string
check_controlled_vocabularybool, optional: If True, then each word in the UCD will be verified against the UCD1+ controlled vocabulary, (as required by the VOTable specification version 1.2), otherwise not.
has_colonbool, optional: If True, the UCD may contain a colon (as defined in earlier versions of the standard).

Returns: