[AstroPy] Write machine readable tables in Python?

[Moritz Günther]

Hi Paul,

if you implement (parts of) a CDS format writer in astropy, that would
be great.
I should point out though, that ApJ will format any reasonable data you
send them (e.g. fits or some plain ascii) into the appropriate format.
I am sure they will appreciate if the file you send them is already
close to a the final format, but they have to do some manual editing
anyway, e.g. add the page number etc. that your paper will have when
published.

(Unless I misunderstand your email and you are working for ApJ and
trying to improve the software used on their end - I don't know how
exactly they do it. My understanding is that they use some combination
of their own tools and manual editing.)

Moritz