Miscellaneous: HDF5, YAML, pickle (astropy.io.misc)

The astropy.io.misc module contains miscellaneous input/output routines that do not fit elsewhere, and are often used by other Astropy sub-packages. For example, astropy.io.misc.hdf5 contains functions to read/write Table objects from/to HDF5 files, but these should not be imported directly by users. Instead, users can access this functionality via the Table class itself (see Unified file read/write interface). Routines that are intended to be used directly by users are listed in the astropy.io.misc section.

astropy.io.misc Package

This package contains miscellaneous utility functions for data input/output with astropy.

Functions

fnpickle(object, fileorname[, usecPickle, …])	Pickle an object to a specified file.
fnunpickle(fileorname[, number, usecPickle])	Unpickle pickled objects from a specified file and return the contents.

astropy.io.misc.hdf5 Module

This package contains functions for reading and writing HDF5 tables that are not meant to be used directly, but instead are available as readers/writers in astropy.table. See Unified file read/write interface for more details.

Functions

read_table_hdf5(input[, path])	Read a Table object from an HDF5 file
write_table_hdf5(table, output[, path, …])	Write a Table object to an HDF5 file

astropy.io.misc.yaml Module

This module contains functions for serializing core astropy objects via the YAML protocol.

It provides functions dump, load, and load_all which call the corresponding functions in PyYaml but use the AstropyDumper and AstropyLoader classes to define custom YAML tags for the following astropy classes:

• astropy.units.Unit
• astropy.units.Quantity
• astropy.time.Time
• astropy.time.TimeDelta
• astropy.coordinates.SkyCoord
• astropy.coordinates.Angle
• astropy.coordinates.Latitude
• astropy.coordinates.Longitude
• astropy.coordinates.EarthLocation
• astropy.table.SerializedColumn

Note

This module requires PyYaml version 3.12 or later, which in turn requires Python 2.7 or Python 3.4 or later.

Example

>>> from astropy.io.misc import yaml
>>> import astropy.units as u
>>> from astropy.time import Time
>>> from astropy.coordinates import EarthLocation

>>> t = Time(2457389.0, format='mjd',
...          location=EarthLocation(1000, 2000, 3000, unit=u.km))
>>> td = yaml.dump(t)

>>> print(td)
!astropy.time.Time
format: mjd
in_subfmt: '*'
jd1: 4857389.5
jd2: 0.0
location: !astropy.coordinates.earth.EarthLocation
  ellipsoid: WGS84
  x: !astropy.units.Quantity
    unit: &id001 !astropy.units.Unit {unit: km}
    value: 1000.0
  y: !astropy.units.Quantity
    unit: *id001
    value: 2000.0
  z: !astropy.units.Quantity
    unit: *id001
    value: 3000.0
out_subfmt: '*'
precision: 3
scale: utc

>>> ty = yaml.load(td)
>>> ty
<Time object: scale='utc' format='mjd' value=2457389.0>

>>> ty.location
<EarthLocation ( 1000.,  2000.,  3000.) km>

Functions

load(stream)	Parse the first YAML document in a stream using the AstropyLoader and produce the corresponding Python object.
load_all(stream)	Parse the all YAML documents in a stream using the AstropyLoader class and produce the corresponding Python object.
dump(data[, stream])	Serialize a Python object into a YAML stream using the AstropyDumper class.

Classes

AstropyLoader(stream)	Custom SafeLoader that constructs astropy core objects as well as Python tuple and unicode objects.
AstropyDumper(stream[, default_style, …])	Custom SafeDumper that represents astropy core objects as well as Python tuple and unicode objects.

Class Inheritance Diagram