Welcome to AstroParse!

About

Having trouble reading data tables into Python using conventional methods like Pandas or Astropy? AstroParse is the right package for you! It is a simple, customizable tool that allows you to parse text data from sources with non-standard formats. This package originally targeted astronomical data that often come in irregular text forms that are not easy to read by both humans and Python.

Getting Started

Install AstroParse to your Python environment:

pip install astroparse

To parse an individual file:

from astroparse import parse_file

To access the flexible Reader class:

from astroparse import Reader

The Reader allows users to parse multiple files at once. The method Reader.read_lists is best for parsing multiple files of similar formats and structure; the method Reader.read_dicts is best for parsing multiple files of different formats or structures. All methods use the same or similar interface to parse_file. See more documentation here: https://astroparse.readthedocs.io/en/latest/.

Next Steps

Check out the examples in /examples!