[AstroPy] Writing CDS-format ASCII tables

Aldcroft, Thomas aldcroft at head.cfa.harvard.edu
Wed May 11 21:19:41 EDT 2016


Wow, thanks for the heads-up!  It would be excellent to take this code into
astropy.io.ascii to provide a CDS writer.  Unfortunately the pyreadme code
there has no license that I can find, so I just sent mail to CDS asking
about this.

- Tom

On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 12:53 PM, Paul Kuin <npkuin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, anafile is the one. It is also very handy for checking the table.
>
> On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 5:31 PM, August (Gus) Muench <august.fly at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Yep. CDS --  http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/resources/doku.php?id=anafile
>>
>> The line, "Download Python package for ReadMe generation V1.1" --
>> pyReadme, an astropy based tool.
>>
>> I was suppose to work on this (CDS table writing) over the past year but
>> just haven't had time.
>>
>>  - gus
>>
>>
>>
>> ----------
>> August (Gus) Muench
>> august.fly at gmail.com
>> @augustmuench
>>
>> On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 12:28 PM, Peter Williams <peter at newton.cx> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I see that the Astropy CDS table interface doesn't support writing
>>> tables, which isn't at all surprising since the format is so complex and
>>> finicky. Is anyone aware of any tools out there to assist in generating
>>> such tables? I'm definitely OK with using something not written in Python
>>> if it gets the job done.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Peter
>>>
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