DefaultSplitter

class astropy.io.ascii.DefaultSplitter

Bases: BaseSplitter

Default class to split strings into columns using python csv. The class attributes are taken from the csv Dialect class.

Typical usage:

# lines = ..
splitter = ascii.DefaultSplitter()
for col_vals in splitter(lines):
    for col_val in col_vals:
         ...

Attributes Summary

csv_writer
csv_writer_out
delimiter	one-character string used to separate fields.
doublequote	character to remove special meaning from following character
escapechar	one-character stringto quote fields containing special characters
quotechar	control how instances of quotechar in a field are quoted
quoting	control when quotes are recognized by the reader
skipinitialspace	ignore whitespace immediately following the delimiter

Methods Summary

__call__(lines)	Return an iterator over the table lines, where each iterator output is a list of the split line values.
join(vals)
process_line(line)	Remove whitespace at the beginning or end of line.
process_val(val)	Remove whitespace at the beginning or end of value.

Attributes Documentation

csv_writer = None

csv_writer_out = <_io.StringIO object>

delimiter = ' '

one-character string used to separate fields.

doublequote = True

character to remove special meaning from following character

escapechar = None

one-character stringto quote fields containing special characters

quotechar = '"'

control how instances of quotechar in a field are quoted

quoting = 0

control when quotes are recognized by the reader

skipinitialspace = True

ignore whitespace immediately following the delimiter

Methods Documentation

__call__(lines)

Return an iterator over the table lines, where each iterator output is a list of the split line values.

Parameters:

lineslist

List of table lines

Yields:

linelist of str

Each line’s split values.

join(vals)

process_line(line)

Remove whitespace at the beginning or end of line. This is especially useful for whitespace-delimited files to prevent spurious columns at the beginning or end. If splitting on whitespace then replace unquoted tabs with space first.

process_val(val)

Remove whitespace at the beginning or end of value.