tables_io.table_dict

Functions to store analysis results as astropy data tables

Classes

TableDict

Warning: This class is being deprecated as of version 1.0.0.

Module Contents

class TableDict[source]

Bases: collections.OrderedDict

Warning: This class is being deprecated as of version 1.0.0.

Object to collect various types of table-like objects

This class is a dictionary mapping name to table-like and a few helper functions, e.g., to add new tables to the dictionary and to read and write files, either as FITS or HDF5 files.

__setitem__(key, value)[source]: Set self[key] to value.

write(basepath, fmt=None)[source]

Write tables to the corresponding file type

Parameters:

basepath (str) – base path for output files. Suffix will be added based on type
fmt (str or None) – The output file format, If None this will use write_native

convert(tType)[source]

Build a new TableDict by converting all the table in the object to a different type

Parameters:: tType (int) – The type to convert to
Returns:: td – The new TableDict
Return type:: TableDict

classmethod read(filepath, tType=None, fmt=None, keys=None)[source]

Read a file to the corresponding table type

Parameters:

filepath (str) – File to load
tType (int or None) – Table type, if None this will use readNative
fmt (str or None) – File format, if None it will be taken from the file extension
keys (list or None) – Keys to read for parquet files

Returns:

tableDict – The data

Return type:

TableDict