[AstroPy] two columns with two character delimiter

[Kathleen Labrie]

Azalee,

The wording in the instructions is confusing.  I checked with someone here
at Gemini.

"Two space-separated columns: (1) wavelength in nm and (2) flux density in
arbitrary units"

The meaning is 2 columns separated with a space (no restriction on the
number of space "character"), not columns separated by exactly 2 spaces.
:)   Someone is already on it to fix the wording.

That being said, I'm still interested in the technical Python question.

Kathleen


On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 2:19 PM Azalee Bostroem <abostroem at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The Gemini ITC requires a user defined spectrum to have columns separated
> by two spaces. Does anyone know how to write out an astropy table with this
> format? I tried the following:
>
>    - format='ascii': this writes out columns separated by a space
>    - delimiter='  ': this produces an error, delimiters are required to
>    be one character
>    - format='fixed_width', delimiter_pad=' ': the produces a variable
>    number of spaces between columns since each number doesn’t have an
>    identical number of digits
>    - format='ascii', delimiter_pad=' ': this produces an error,
>    delimiter_pad is only a keyword for fixed_width format
>
>
> I know there are ways to do with outside of Table.write, but I’m curious
> if there is a way to achieve this format with Table.write?
>
> Thanks,
> Azalee
>
>
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