write

astropy.io.ascii.write(table, output=None, format=None, Writer=None, fast_writer=True, **kwargs)

Write the input table to filename. Most of the default behavior for various parameters is determined by the Writer class.

Parameters:

table : BaseReader, array_like, str, file_like, list

Input table as a Reader object, Numpy struct array, file name, file-like object, list of strings, or single newline-separated string.

output : str, file_like

Output [filename, file-like object] (default = sys.stdout)

format : str

Output table format (default= basic)

delimiter : str

Column delimiter string

comment : str

String defining a comment line in table

quotechar : str

One-character string to quote fields containing special characters

formats : dict

Dictionary of format specifiers or formatting functions

strip_whitespace : bool

Strip surrounding whitespace from column values (default= True)

names : list

List of names corresponding to each data column

include_names : list

List of names to include in output (default= None selects all names)

exclude_names : list

List of names to exclude from output (applied after include_names)

fast_writer : bool

Whether to use the fast Cython writer (default= True)

Writer : Writer

Writer class (DEPRECATED) (default= Basic)