spacepy.datamodel.readJSONheadedASCII

spacepy.datamodel.readJSONheadedASCII(fname, mdata=None, comment='#', convert=False)

read JSON-headed ASCII data files into a SpacePy datamodel

Parameters:

fname : str or list

Filename(s) to read data from

Returns:

mdata: spacepy.datamodel.SpaceData :

SpaceData with the data and metadata from the file

Other Parameters:  

mdata : spacepy.datamodel.SpaceData (optional)

supply metadata object, otherwise is read from fname (default None)

comment: str (optional) :

comment string in file to be read; lines starting with comment are ignored (default ‘#’)

convert: bool or dict-like (optional) :

If True, uses common names to try conversion from string. If a dict- like then uses the functions specified as the dict values to convert each element of ‘key’ to a non-string