[AstroPy] HDU to Table

[Frederic V. Hessman]

There's the convenience function 

	astropy.io.fits.table_to_hdu (astropy.table.Table) -> astropy.io.fits.BinTableHDU

but where's 

	astropy.io.fits.hdu_to_table(astropy.io.fits.BinTableHDU) -> astropy.table.Table ?

Surely people are writing AND reading binary tables.....!    I want to dump IFU spectra into a single FITS binary table file and then easily read them back in again.

My internet searches haven't yielded anything equivalent.  Of course, one can write the reverse conversion (one can write anything/everything), but this should be a standard FITS/Table function.

Rick

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