astropy/astropy — pull request #359 by astrofrog (2012-08-24 20:00:01+00:00)
Title: Connect astropy.io.ascii to astropy.table

Since astropy.io.ascii works natively with Table objects, it is straightforward to connect it to the I/O routines in astropy.table. This means it's easy to do:

t1 = Table.read('daophot.dat', format='daophot')
t2 = Table.read('cds.dat', format='cds')
t3 = Table.read('latex1.tex')
t4 = Table.read('short.rdb')
t5 = Table.read('ipac.dat', format='ipac')

etc.

@taldcroft, if you would be happy for this to go ahead, I can add docs and tests.