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Ecsv

class astropy.io.ascii.Ecsv[source] [edit on github]

Bases: astropy.io.ascii.Basic

Read a file which conforms to the ECSV (Enhanced Character Separated Values) format. This format allows for specification of key table and column meta-data, in particular the data type and unit. For details see: https://github.com/astropy/astropy-APEs/blob/master/APE6.rst.

For example:

# %ECSV 0.9
# ---
# columns:
# - {name: a, unit: m / s, type: int64, format: '%03d'}
# - {name: b, unit: km, type: int64, description: This is column b}
a b
001 2
004 3

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