TimeFrameAttribute¶
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class
astropy.coordinates.
TimeFrameAttribute
(default=None, secondary_attribute=u'')[source] [edit on github]¶ Bases:
astropy.coordinates.FrameAttribute
Frame attribute descriptor for quantities that are Time objects. See the
FrameAttribute
API doc for further information.Parameters: default : object
Default value for the attribute if not provided
secondary_attribute : str
Name of a secondary instance attribute which supplies the value if
default is None
and no value was supplied during initialization.Methods Summary
convert_input
(value)Convert input value to a Time object and validate by running through the Time constructor. Methods Documentation
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convert_input
(value)[source] [edit on github]¶ Convert input value to a Time object and validate by running through the Time constructor. Also check that the input was a scalar.
Parameters: value : object
Input value to be converted.
Returns: out, converted : correctly-typed object, boolean
Tuple consisting of the correctly-typed object and a boolean which indicates if conversion was actually performed.
Raises: ValueError
If the input is not valid for this attribute.
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