Extension Reader Classes

The following classes extend the base BaseReader functionality to handle reading and writing different table formats. Some, such as the Basic Reader class are fairly general and include a number of configurable attributes. Others such as Cds or Daophot are specialized to read certain well-defined but idiosyncratic formats.

• AASTex: AASTeX deluxetable used for AAS journals.

• Basic: basic table with customizable delimiters and header configurations.

• Cds: CDS format table (also Vizier and ApJ machine readable tables).

• CommentedHeader: column names given in a line that begins with the comment character.

• Csv: comma-separated values.

• Daophot: table from the IRAF DAOphot package.

• FixedWidth: table with fixed-width columns (see also Fixed-Width Gallery).

• FixedWidthNoHeader: table with fixed-width columns and no header.

• FixedWidthTwoLine: table with fixed-width columns and a two-line header.

• HTML: HTML format table contained in a <table> tag.

• Ipac: IPAC format table.

• Latex: LaTeX table with datavalue in the tabular environment.

• Mrt: AAS Machine-Readable Table format.

• NoHeader: basic table with no header where columns are auto-named.

• Rdb: tab-separated values with an extra line after the column definition line.

• RST: reStructuredText simple format table.

• SExtractor: SExtractor format table.

• Tab: tab-separated values.