[AstroPy] Writing CDS-format ASCII tables

[Paul Kuin]

The output from anafile is mainly the format table. There needs to be
further editing for
the description, notes to the table, etc.

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 2:19 AM, Aldcroft, Thomas <
aldcroft at head.cfa.harvard.edu> wrote:

> 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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