[AstroPy] Vector Quantities in QTable

[Jeffrey Brent McBeth]

On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 02:18:23PM -0400, Aldcroft, Thomas wrote:
>    Hi Jeffrey,
>    Sorry for the delay, I finally had a chance to dig into this.  
>    Congratulations, you have found a real bug
>    ([1]https://github.com/astropy/astropy/issues/6072).  There is no bounty
>    but we should be able to fix this for next bug-fix release.  Unfortunately
>    I can't think of an easy workaround apart from assembling the table as a
>    Table and then converting to QTable at the end.
>    >>> foo = Table(names=('state1','mass'),dtype=('(3,)f8','f8'))
>    >>> foo['state1'].unit = u.K
>    >>> foo['mass'].unit = [2]u.mg
>    >>> s0 = [235,240,245]*u.K
>    >>> m0 = 5*u.g
>    >>> foo.add_row(([3]s0.to(u.K), [4]m0.to([5]u.mg)))
>    >>> foo = QTable(foo, copy=False)
>    >>> foo
>    <QTable length=1>
>      state1 [3]     mass 
>          K           mg  
>       float64     float64
>    -------------- -------
>    235.0 .. 245.0  5000.0

Thank you for getting back to me.  I'm glad to hear that it isn't just me being crazy.  I'll follow the development with bated breath.

Jeff

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