BaseHeader

class astropy.io.ascii.BaseHeader

Bases: object

Base table header reader

Parameters:

• auto_format – format string for auto-generating column names
• start_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
• names – list of names corresponding to each data column

Attributes Summary

auto_format	str(object) -> string
colnames	Return the column names of the table
comment
names
start_line
write_spacer_lines	list() -> new empty list

Methods Summary

get_col_type(col)
get_cols(lines)	Initialize the header Column objects from the table lines.
get_type_map_key(col)
process_lines(lines)	Generator to yield non-comment lines
update_meta(lines, meta)	Extract any table-level metadata, e.g.
write(lines)

Attributes Documentation

auto_format = 'col%d'

colnames

Return the column names of the table

comment = None

names = None

start_line = None

write_spacer_lines = ['ASCII_TABLE_WRITE_SPACER_LINE']

Methods Documentation

get_col_type(col)

get_cols(lines)

Initialize the header Column objects from the table lines.

Based on the previously set Header attributes find or create the column names. Sets self.cols with the list of Columns.

Parameters:lines – list of table lines Returns:None

get_type_map_key(col)

process_lines(lines)

Generator to yield non-comment lines

update_meta(lines, meta)

Extract any table-level metadata, e.g. keywords, comments, column metadata, from the table lines and update the OrderedDict meta in place. This base method does nothing.

write(lines)