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Extensible ASCII table reader and writer

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Asciitable can read and write a wide range of ASCII table formats via built-in Extension Reader Classes:

  • 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

  • Daophot: table from the IRAF DAOphot package

  • FixedWidth: table with fixed-width columns

  • Ipac: IPAC format table

  • Latex: LaTeX tables (plain and AASTex)

  • Memory: table already in memory (list of lists, dict of lists, etc)

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

  • Rdb: tab-separated values with a column types line after the column names line

  • Tab: tab-separated values

This is the last major release of the asciitable package:

The asciitable package was moved into the Astropy project as astropy.io.ascii. This sub-package is being actively developed and contains many new features and bug fixes. Users are encouraged to migrate to astropy.io.ascii.

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