[AstroPy] Access to comments in astropy.io.asccii

[Knox Long]

I/we are trying to move to astropy.io.ascii.read for reading ascii.data, and for the most part this is working well.  However, we often also want access to comment lines in our ascii data and I have not found any way to do this.  Is there something I am missing.  Here is an example of what I would like to be able to read:

# TITLE= "test.ioncC3.dat"
# Coord_Sys CYLIND
x z var inwind i j
1.4000e+09 3.5000e+08 0.00e+00  -2   0   0
1.4000e+09 8.0805e+08 0.00e+00  -1   0   1
1.4000e+09 1.0575e+09 0.00e+00  -1   0   2
1.4000e+09 1.3840e+09 0.00e+00  -1   0   3
1.4000e+09 1.8113e+09 0.00e+00  -1   0   4
1.4000e+09 2.3705e+09 0.00e+00  -1   0   5
1.4000e+09 3.1023e+09 0.00e+00  -1   0   6
1.4000e+09 4.0600e+09 0.00e+00  -1   0   7

Thanks,
Knox
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