Reading and writing files
===========================

You can't do much if you cannot read and write all the different kinds of file
formats commonly used in astronomy. After mastering this tutorial, you will be
able to read and write most of the common dataformats yourself, and at least know
where to start to read and write the more obscure ones.

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2
   
   asciifiles


These notes are based on the the reading/writing tutorial (written by Thomas
Robitaille and Rory Holmes) of the `python4mpia
<http://python4mpia.github.com/>`_  and
`python4ESAC <http:/python4esac.github.com>`_ and the `scipy-lectures
<http://scipy-lectures.github.com/>`_ on Python.