What’s New in Astropy 7.1?

Overview

Astropy 7.1 is a major release that adds significant new functionality since the 7.0 release.

In particular, this release includes:

• Trailing whitespace in Table string columns can now be stripped

In addition to these major changes, Astropy v7.1 includes a large number of smaller improvements and bug fixes, which are described in the Full Changelog. By the numbers:

• X issues have been closed since v7.1

• X pull requests have been merged since v7.1

• X distinct people have contributed code

Trailing whitespace in Table string columns can now be stripped

Strings in FITS binary tables are sometimes padded with trailing whitespace. It is now possible to remove those when reading a table with (Q)Table.read("filename.fits", strip_spaces=True). The default behavior is not changed yet to preserve compatibility with codes that might rely on this, it will change in the next major version (v8.0).

Full change log

To see a detailed list of all changes in version v7.1, including changes in API, please see the Full Changelog.