astropy/astropy — pull request #683 by taldcroft (2013-02-08 21:44:25+00:00)
Title: Support table metadata in io.ascii

This is an initial feature request to more fully support table metadata in `io.ascii`. This was discussed in #664 and #659.

This issue is meant to address just reading and writing metadata into an ASCII-formatted table.

There is the related issue of providing a framework for manipulating metadata beyond the current concept of a simple ordered dict. This has a much larger scope and potentially touches `nddata`, `io.fits` and others.

cc: @kbarbary