AssociationPool

class jwst.associations.AssociationPool(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: Table

Association Pool - built off an astropy table.

An AssociationPool is essentially an astropy Table with the following default behaviors:

• ASCII tables with a default delimiter of |

• All values are read in as strings

Methods Summary

read(filename[, delimiter, fmt])	Read in a Pool file.
write(*args, **kwargs)	Write the pool to a file.

Methods Documentation

classmethod read(filename, delimiter='|', fmt='ascii', **kwargs)

Read in a Pool file.

Parameters:

• filename (str) – File path to read in as a table.

• delimiter (str) – Character used to delineate columns.

• fmt (str) – The format of the input file.

Returns:

The AssociationPool representation of the file.

Return type:

AssociationPool

write(*args, **kwargs)

Write the pool to a file.

Parameters:

• *args (dict) – Dictionary of arguments that astropy.io.ascii.write can accept.

• **kwargs (dict) – Dictionary of keywords that astropy.io.ascii.write can accept.