Source code for astropy.nddata.mixins.ndio
# Licensed under a 3-clause BSD style license - see LICENSE.rst
# This module implements the I/O mixin to the NDData class.
from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function,
unicode_literals)
from ...io import registry as io_registry
__all__ = ['NDIOMixin']
[docs]class NDIOMixin(object):
"""
Mixin class to connect NDData to the astropy input/output registry.
This mixin adds two methods to its subclasses, ``read`` and ``write``.
"""
@classmethod
[docs] def read(cls, *args, **kwargs):
"""
Read and parse gridded N-dimensional data and return as an
NDData-derived object.
This function provides the NDDataBase interface to the astropy unified
I/O layer. This allows easily reading a file in the supported data
formats.
"""
return io_registry.read(cls, *args, **kwargs)
[docs] def write(self, *args, **kwargs):
"""
Write a gridded N-dimensional data object out in specified format.
This function provides the NDDataBase interface to the astropy unified
I/O layer. This allows easily writing a file in the supported data
formats.
"""
io_registry.write(self, *args, **kwargs)