afmformats.formats.fmt_tab
¶
Functions¶
load_tab()
: Loads tab-separated-value files as exported by afmformats
- afmformats.formats.fmt_tab.load_tab(path, callback=None, meta_override=None)[source]¶
Loads tab-separated-value files as exported by afmformats
This is a simple tab-separated values files. The metadata may be present at the beginning of the file, commented out, as a json dump in a “BEGIN METADATA” - “END METADATA” block. The column data is listed below as a simple table.
- Parameters
path (str or pathlib.Path or io.TextIOBase) – path to a .tab file
callback (callable) – function for progress tracking; must accept a float in [0, 1] as an argument.
meta_override (dict) – if specified, contains key-value pairs of metadata that are used when loading the files (see
afmformats.meta.META_FIELDS
)