BaseData

class astropy.io.ascii.core.BaseData

Bases: object

Base table data reader.

Parameters:

• start_line – None, int, or a function of lines that returns None or int
• end_line – None, int, or a function of lines that returns None or int
• comment – Regular expression for comment lines
• splitter_class – Splitter class for splitting data lines into columns

Attributes Summary

comment
fill_values	list() -> new empty list
start_line
write_spacer_lines	list() -> new empty list
end_line
formats
fill_exclude_names
fill_include_names

Methods Summary

process_lines(lines)	Strip out comment lines and blank lines from list of lines
masks(cols)	Set fill value for each column and then apply that fill value In the first step it is evaluated with value from fill_values applies to which column using fill_include_names and fill_exclude_names.
get_data_lines(lines)	Set the data_lines attribute to the lines slice comprising the table data values.
get_str_vals()	Return a generator that returns a list of column values (as strings) for each data line.
write(lines)

Attributes Documentation

comment = None

fill_values = []

start_line = None

write_spacer_lines = ['ASCII_TABLE_WRITE_SPACER_LINE']

end_line = None

formats = {}

fill_exclude_names = None

fill_include_names = None

Methods Documentation

process_lines(lines)

Strip out comment lines and blank lines from list of lines

Parameters:lines – all lines in table Returns:list of lines

masks(cols)

Set fill value for each column and then apply that fill value

In the first step it is evaluated with value from fill_values applies to which column using fill_include_names and fill_exclude_names. In the second step all replacements are done for the appropriate columns.

get_data_lines(lines)

Set the data_lines attribute to the lines slice comprising the table data values.

get_str_vals()

Return a generator that returns a list of column values (as strings) for each data line.

write(lines)