astshim.fitsTableContinued Namespace Reference

Functions
def	getColumnData (self, column)

Function Documentation

getColumnData()

def astshim.fitsTableContinued.getColumnData	(		self,
			column
	)

Retrieve the column data in the correct type and shape.

Parameters
----------
column : `str`
    Name of the column to retrieve.

Returns
-------
data : `list` of `numpy.array`

Definition at line 7 of file fitsTableContinued.py.

def getColumnData(self, column):
    """Retrieve the column data in the correct type and shape.
 
    Parameters
    ----------
    column : `str`
        Name of the column to retrieve.
 
    Returns
    -------
    data : `list` of `numpy.array`
 
    """
    nrows = self.nRow
    shape = self.columnShape(column)
    dtype = self.columnType(column)
 
    if dtype == base.DataType.DoubleType:
        newshape = list(shape)
        newshape.append(nrows)
        coldata = self.getColumnData1D(column)
        coldata = coldata.reshape(newshape, order="F")
    else:
        raise ValueError("Can only retrieve double column data")
    return coldata
 
 
FitsTable.getColumnData = getColumnData