MaskedColumn

class astropy.table.MaskedColumn

Bases: astropy.table.Column, numpy.ma.core.MaskedArray

Define a masked data column for use in a Table object.

Parameters:

data : list, ndarray or None

Column data values

name : str

Column name and key for reference within Table

mask : list, ndarray or None

Boolean mask for which True indicates missing or invalid data

fill_value : float, int, str or None

Value used when filling masked column elements

dtype : numpy.dtype compatible value

Data type for column

shape : tuple or ()

Dimensions of a single row element in the column data

length : int or 0

Number of row elements in column data

description : str or None

Full description of column

unit : str or None

Physical unit

format : str or None or function or callable

Format string for outputting column values. This can be an “old-style” (format % value) or “new-style” (str.format) format specification string or a function or any callable object that accepts a single value and returns a string.

meta : dict-like or None

Meta-data associated with the column

Examples

A MaskedColumn is similar to a Column except that it includes mask and fill_value attributes. It can be created in two different ways:

• Provide a data value but not shape or length (which are inferred from the data).

  Examples:

  col = MaskedColumn(data=[1, 2], name='name')
  col = MaskedColumn(data=[1, 2], name='name', mask=[True, False])
  col = MaskedColumn(data=[1, 2], name='name', dtype=float, fill_value=99)
  

  The mask argument will be cast as a boolean array and specifies which elements are considered to be missing or invalid.

  The dtype argument can be any value which is an acceptable fixed-size data-type initializer for the numpy.dtype() method. See http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/arrays.dtypes.html. Examples include:

  • Python non-string type (float, int, bool)
  • Numpy non-string type (e.g. np.float32, np.int64, np.bool)
  • Numpy.dtype array-protocol type strings (e.g. ‘i4’, ‘f8’, ‘S15’)

  If no dtype value is provide then the type is inferred using np.array(data). When data is provided then the shape and length arguments are ignored.

• Provide length and optionally shape, but not data

  Examples:

  col = MaskedColumn(name='name', length=5)
  col = MaskedColumn(name='name', dtype=int, length=10, shape=(3,4))
  

  The default dtype is np.float64. The shape argument is the array shape of a single cell in the column.

Attributes Summary

data
fill_value
name

Methods Summary

convert_unit_to(new_unit[, equivalencies])	Converts the values of the column in-place from the current unit to the given unit.
copy([order, data, copy_data])	Return a copy of the current instance.
filled([fill_value])	Return a copy of self, with masked values filled with a given value.
more([max_lines, show_name, show_unit])	Interactively browse column with a paging interface.
pformat([max_lines, show_name, show_unit])	Return a list of formatted string representation of column values.
pprint([max_lines, show_name, show_unit])	Print a formatted string representation of column values.

Attributes Documentation

data

fill_value

name

Methods Documentation

convert_unit_to(new_unit, equivalencies=[])

Converts the values of the column in-place from the current unit to the given unit.

To change the unit associated with this column without actually changing the data values, simply set the unit property.

Parameters:

new_unit : str or astropy.units.UnitBase instance

The unit to convert to.

equivalencies : list of equivalence pairs, optional

A list of equivalence pairs to try if the unit are not directly convertible. See Equivalencies.

Raises:

astropy.units.UnitsError

If units are inconsistent

copy(order=u'C', data=None, copy_data=True)

Return a copy of the current instance.

If data is supplied then a view (reference) of data is used, and copy_data is ignored.

Parameters:

order : {‘C’, ‘F’, ‘A’, ‘K’}, optional

Controls the memory layout of the copy. ‘C’ means C-order, ‘F’ means F-order, ‘A’ means ‘F’ if a is Fortran contiguous, ‘C’ otherwise. ‘K’ means match the layout of a as closely as possible. (Note that this function and :func:numpy.copy are very similar, but have different default values for their order= arguments.) Default is ‘C’.

data : array, optional

If supplied then use a view of data instead of the instance data. This allows copying the instance attributes and meta.

copy_data : bool, optional

Make a copy of the internal numpy array instead of using a reference. Default is True.

Returns:

col: Column or MaskedColumn

Copy of the current column (same type as original)

filled(fill_value=None)

Return a copy of self, with masked values filled with a given value.

Parameters:

fill_value : scalar; optional

The value to use for invalid entries (None by default). If None, the fill_value attribute of the array is used instead.

Returns:

filled_column : Column

A copy of self with masked entries replaced by fill_value (be it the function argument or the attribute of self).

more(max_lines=None, show_name=True, show_unit=False)

Interactively browse column with a paging interface.

Supported keys:

f, <space> : forward one page
b : back one page
r : refresh same page
n : next row
p : previous row
< : go to beginning
> : go to end
q : quit browsing
h : print this help

Parameters:

max_lines : int

Maximum number of lines in table output

show_name : bool

Include a header row for column names (default=True)

show_unit : bool

Include a header row for unit (default=False)

pformat(max_lines=None, show_name=True, show_unit=False)

Return a list of formatted string representation of column values.

If no value of max_lines is supplied then the height of the screen terminal is used to set max_lines. If the terminal height cannot be determined then the default will be determined using the astropy.conf.max_lines configuration item. If a negative value of max_lines is supplied then there is no line limit applied.

Parameters:

max_lines : int

Maximum lines of output (header + data rows)

show_name : bool

Include column name (default=True)

show_unit : bool

Include a header row for unit (default=False)

Returns:

lines : list

List of lines with header and formatted column values

pprint(max_lines=None, show_name=True, show_unit=False)

Print a formatted string representation of column values.

If no value of max_lines is supplied then the height of the screen terminal is used to set max_lines. If the terminal height cannot be determined then the default will be determined using the astropy.conf.max_lines configuration item. If a negative value of max_lines is supplied then there is no line limit applied.

Parameters:

max_lines : int

Maximum number of values in output

show_name : bool

Include column name (default=True)

show_unit : bool

Include a header row for unit (default=False)