astropy/astropy — pull request #524 by astrofrog (2012-12-04 11:29:20+00:00)
Title: Votable/table interface

This PR adds the ability to read/write VO table directly from the ``astropy.table.Table`` class. I still need to add tests. In the mean time, @mdboom, do you see any issues with this approach? This allows users to do:

```
In [2]: from astropy.table import Table

In [3]: t = Table.read('aj285677t3_votable.xml', format='votable')

In [4]: t.write('test.xml', format='votable')
```

If there is nothing fundamentally wrong with this, I will start adding some tests.