barak.io.writetxt¶

barak.io.writetxt(fh, cols, sep=' ', names=None, header=None, overwrite=False, fmt_float='s')[source]¶

This is deprecated. Use writetable() with file type ‘.tbl’ instead.

Write data to a column-aligned text file.

Structured array data written using this function can be read again using:

>>> readtxt(filename, readnames=True)

Parameters :

fh : file object or str The file to be written to. cols : structured array or a list of columns Data to be written. sep : str (‘ ‘) A string used to separate items on each row. names : list, string, False or None (None) Column names. Can be a comma-separated string of names. If False, do not print any names. If None and cols is a structured array, column names are the array field names. header : str (None) A header written before the data and column names. overwrite : bool (False) If True, overwrite an existing file without prompting.