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Reading and Writing files
=========================

In this workshop we will learn how to get data in and out of Python
using solely built-in Python functions and types, and we will then
move on to see how we can use modules such as `pyfits`, `asciitable
<https://github.com/taldcroft/asciitable>`_ and `ATpy
<http://atpy.github.com>`_ to read tables of data in various formats.

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   asciifiles.rst
   binaryfiles.rst
   atpy.rst
   summary.rst
   
:Authors: Tom Robitaille, Tom Aldcroft, Moritz Guenther
:Copyright: 2011 Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory