get_writer¶
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astropy.io.ascii.
get_writer
(Writer=None, fast_writer=True, **kwargs)[source]¶ Initialize a table writer allowing for common customizations. Most of the default behavior for various parameters is determined by the Writer class.
- Parameters
- Writer
Writer
Writer class (DEPRECATED). Defaults to
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_whitespacebool
Strip surrounding whitespace from column values.
- names
list
List of names corresponding to each data column
- include_names
list
List of names to include in output.
- exclude_names
list
List of names to exclude from output (applied after
include_names
)- fast_writerbool
Whether to use the fast Cython writer.
- Writer
- Returns
- writer
BaseReader
subclass ASCII format writer instance
- writer