Asciitable can read and write a wide range of ASCII table formats via built-in
Extension Reader Classes:
- Basic: basic table with customizable delimiters and header configurations
- Cds:
CDS format table <http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/doc/catstd.htx>
_ (also Vizier and ApJ machine readable tables) - CommentedHeader: column names given in a line that begins with the comment character
- Daophot: table from the IRAF DAOphot package
- FixedWidth: table with fixed-width columns
- Ipac:
IPAC format table <http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/applications/DDGEN/Doc/ipac_tbl.html>
_ - Latex: LaTeX tables (plain and AASTex)
- Memory: table already in memory (list of lists, dict of lists, etc)
- NoHeader: basic table with no header where columns are auto-named
- Rdb: tab-separated values with a column types line after the column names line
- Tab: tab-separated values
This is the last major release of the asciitable package:
The asciitable package was moved into the Astropy <http://astropy.org>
_ project
as astropy.io.ascii <http://astropy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/io/ascii/index.html>
_.
This sub-package is being actively developed and contains many new features and
bug fixes. Users are encouraged to migrate to astropy.io.ascii
.