[AstroPy] Write machine readable tables in Python?

[Leo Singer]

Hi Paul,

I think that I need to write both the ASCII table and the ReadMe header section. I am preparing some Machine Readable Tables for inclusion in an an ApJ submission, following the guidelines here:
https://aas.org/authors/online-only-materials-guidelines

I wrote a little script to send an astropy.table.Table instance to the AAS machine readable table converter form. That form is here:
http://authortools.aas.org/MRT/upload.html

And the script is here:
https://gist.github.com/lpsinger/10489886

As far as implementing a writer in Astropy, the trickiest part would be writing the Fortran-style format strings. Probably the most reliable method would be to write the table data using the existing fixed-width formatter, then read it back to deduce the format string.

Leo

On Apr 10, 2014, at 4:28 PM, Paul Kuin <npkuin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Do you mean that you need to generate the ascii tables as well as the format tables for the ReadMe file?  
> 
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 11:21 PM, Leo Singer <lsinger at caltech.edu> wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know of a tool for writing Machine Readable Tables (CDS format) in Python? I know that astropy.table and asciitable can read them, but I need to write one.
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