get_writer

astropy.io.ascii.get_writer(Writer=None, **kwargs)

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 class (DEPRECATED) (default=``ascii.Basic``)
• delimiter – column delimiter string
• write_comment – string defining a comment line in table
• quotechar – one-character string to quote fields containing special characters
• formats – dict of format specifiers or formatting functions
• strip_whitespace – strip surrounding whitespace from column values (default=True)
• names – list of names corresponding to each data column
• include_names – list of names to include in output (default=None selects all names)
• exclude_names – list of names to exlude from output (applied after include_names)