Column#

class astropy.io.ascii.Column(name)[source]#

Bases: object

Table column.

The key attributes of a Column object are:

  • name : column name

  • type : column type (NoType, StrType, NumType, FloatType, IntType)

  • dtype : numpy dtype (optional, overrides type if set)

  • str_vals : list of column values as strings

  • fill_values : dict of fill values

  • shape : list of element shape (default [] => scalar)

  • data : list of converted column values

  • subtype : actual datatype for columns serialized with JSON