[AstroPy] reading table from string

[Erik Bray]

Indeed it does look like an issue has been opened about this:

https://github.com/astropy/astropy/issues/1692

As I suggested it's sort of the "intended" behavior, but that doesn't make it 
right as it's obviously confusing in this case.

Erik

On 10/24/2013 11:34 PM, Semyeong Oh wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If I use 'names' keyword when reading a table from string,
> the first line is ignored.
>
> new="""
> 3102  0.32 <tel:3102%C2%A0%200.32>      4167  4085   Q1250+568-A
> 877   0.22      4378  3892   "Source 82"
> """
> t = ascii.read(new, names=['obsid','redshift','X','Y','object'])
> print t
>
>
> obsid redshift  X    Y     object
> ----- -------- ---- ---- ---------
>    877     0.22 4378 3892 Source 82
>
>
> Is this a bug?
>
> Thanks,
> Semyeong
>
>
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