write

astropy.io.ascii.write(table, output=None, format=None, Writer=None, **kwargs)

Write the input table to filename. Most of the default behavior for various parameters is determined by the Writer class.

Parameters:

• table – input table (Reader object, NumPy struct array, list of lists, etc)
• output – output [filename, file-like object] (default = sys.stdout)
• format – output format (default=``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)
• Writer – Writer class (DEPRECATED) (default=``ascii.Basic``)