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:
         ...

Parameters:

• delimiter – one-character string used to separate fields.
• doublequote – control how instances of quotechar in a field are quoted
• escapechar – character to remove special meaning from following character
• quotechar – one-character stringto quote fields containing special characters
• quoting – control when quotes are recognised by the reader
• skipinitialspace – ignore whitespace immediately following the delimiter

Attributes Summary

delimiter	str(object=’‘) -> string
doublequote	bool(x) -> bool
escapechar
quotechar	str(object=’‘) -> string
quoting	int(x=0) -> int or long
skipinitialspace	bool(x) -> bool

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

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 of table lines Returns: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