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<span id="read-write-tables"></span><h1>Reading and writing Table objects<a class="headerlink" href="#reading-and-writing-table-objects" title="Permalink to this headline">ΒΆ</a></h1>
<p>Astropy provides a unified interface for reading and writing data
in different formats. For many common cases this will
simplify the process of file I/O and reduce the need to master
the separate details of all the I/O packages within Astropy. For details and
examples of using this interface see the <a class="reference internal" href="../io/unified.html#table-io"><em>Unified file read/write interface</em></a>
section.</p>
<p>The <a class="reference internal" href="../_generated/astropy.table.table.Table.html#astropy.table.table.Table" title="astropy.table.table.Table"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">Table</span></tt></a> class includes two methods,
<a class="reference internal" href="../_generated/astropy.table.table.Table.html#astropy.table.table.Table.read" title="astropy.table.table.Table.read"><tt class="xref py py-meth docutils literal"><span class="pre">read()</span></tt></a> and
<a class="reference internal" href="../_generated/astropy.table.table.Table.html#astropy.table.table.Table.write" title="astropy.table.table.Table.write"><tt class="xref py py-meth docutils literal"><span class="pre">write()</span></tt></a>, that make it possible to read from
and write to files. A number of formats are automatically supported (see
<a class="reference internal" href="../io/unified.html#built-in-readers-writers"><em>Built-in readers/writers</em></a>) and new file formats and extensions can be
registered with the <a class="reference internal" href="../_generated/astropy.table.table.Table.html#astropy.table.table.Table" title="astropy.table.table.Table"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">Table</span></tt></a> class (see
<a class="reference internal" href="../io/registry.html#io-registry"><em>I/O Registry (astropy.io.registry)</em></a>).</p>
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