DefaultSplitter

class astropy.io.ascii.DefaultSplitter

Bases: astropy.io.ascii.BaseSplitter

Default class to split strings into columns using python csv. The class attributes are taken from the csv Dialect class.

Typical usage:

# lines = ..
splitter = ascii.DefaultSplitter()
for col_vals in splitter(lines):
    for col_val in col_vals:
         ...

Attributes Summary

csv_writer
csv_writer_out
delimiter
doublequote
escapechar
quotechar
quoting
skipinitialspace

Methods Summary

__call__(lines)	Return an iterator over the table lines, where each iterator output is a list of the split line values.
join(vals)
process_line(line)	Remove whitespace at the beginning or end of line.

Attributes Documentation

csv_writer = None

csv_writer_out = <_io.StringIO object>

delimiter = ' '

doublequote = True

escapechar = None

quotechar = '"'

quoting = 0

skipinitialspace = True

Methods Documentation

__call__(lines)

Return an iterator over the table lines, where each iterator output is a list of the split line values.

Parameters:

lines : list

List of table lines

Returns:

lines : iterator

join(vals)

process_line(line)

Remove whitespace at the beginning or end of line. This is especially useful for whitespace-delimited files to prevent spurious columns at the beginning or end. If splitting on whitespace then replace unquoted tabs with space first