Empty the table set
Read in a table set from a file/database.
Optional Keyword Arguments (independent of table type):
- verbose: [ True | False ]
- Whether to print out warnings when reading (default is True)
- type: [ string ]
- The read method attempts to automatically guess the file/database format based on the arguments supplied. The type can be overridden by setting this argument.
Write out a table set to a file/database.
Optional Keyword Arguments (independent of table type):
- verbose: [ True | False ]
- Whether to print out warnings when writing (default is True)
- type: [ string ]
- The read method attempts to automatically guess the file/database format based on the arguments supplied. The type can be overridden by setting this argument.
Add a comment to the table set
Required Argument:
- comment: [ string ]
- The comment to add to the table
Add a keyword/value pair to the table set
Required Arguments:
- key: [ string ]
- The name of the keyword
- value: [ string | float | integer | bool ]
- The value of the keyword
Describe all the tables in the set
Append a table to the table set
Required Arguments:
- table: [ a table instance ]
- This can be a table of any type, which will be converted to a table of the same type as the parent set (e.g. adding a single VOTable to a FITSTableSet will convert the VOTable to a FITSTable inside the set)