astropy/astropy — pull request #2372 by amras1 (2014-04-26 19:26:11+00:00)
Title: Added support for inputting description and units in io.ascii.SExtractor

This is meant to (partially) fix #1093 -- I implemented description and unit input under the assumption that the SExtractor units will parse correctly. Hopefully this is a safe assumption, but if not, maybe creating a new format would be necessary per @taldcroft's suggestion (also because of the issue for unit exponents).