astropy/astropy — pull request #360 by astrofrog (2012-08-24 20:12:09+00:00)
Title: Added option to specify definition= for IPAC tables

As implemented in ATpy, there are three definitions for IPAC tables (I can forward the email correspondance if you are interested). One definition says there should be no characters below the ``|`` symbols. One definition says that characters below belong to the column on the right, and one says they belong to the column on the left. This change implements a way to select one of these definitions.

However, at the moment this doesn't do any validation, so if there *are* any characters below ``|``, they are ignored, whereas maybe this should raise an exception. However, I'm not familiar enough with astropy.io.ascii to know how to do this. Any ideas?