[AstroPy] Abbreviated data types in IPAC tables

[Gregory Simonian]

Hi Tom,

I opened the bug right here:

https://github.com/astropy/astropy/issues/3279

Let me know if there's anything I left out. Thank you and the rest of
the astropy team for working on these tools; they save a lot of work!

                            Gregory

On 01/07/2015 05:20 AM, Thomas Robitaille wrote:
> Hi Gregory,
> 
> I think that this is indeed a bug in Astropy and we should fix it to
> recognize abbreviated data types. Can you open an issue on the astropy
> bug tracker on Github?
> 
> Thanks!
> Tom
> 
> Gregory Simonian wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm trying to read in an IPAC table from the WISE IRSA catalog using
>> Astropy v4.1, which for some columns abbreviate "double" as "doubl". At
>> first I thought this was a bug in the database, but I was informed that
>> abbreviations off the end are actually a legal part of the standard.[0]
>>
>> However, whenever I try to read it using astropy, I get the error:
>>
>> In [2]: Table.read("test_output.tbl", format="ascii.ipac", guess=False)
>> <snip>
>> ValueError: Unknown data type ""doubl"" for column "w1ba"
>>
>> Is this a part of the standard that hasn't been implemented yet in
>> astropy? Or is there some setting that I haven't found that will enable
>> this to work? Or am I just doing something wrong? I've attached a small
>> output file that reproduces this error for anyone that's curious. Thanks!
>>
>>                                    Gregory Simonian
>>
>> [0] http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/applications/DDGEN/Doc/ipac_tbl.html
>>
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