astropy 5.0

The formats of ASCII table columns and binary table columns are inherently incompatible in FITS. They don't support the same ranges and types of values, and even reuse format codes in subtly different ways. For example the format code 'Iw' in ASCII columns refers to any integer whose string representation is at most w characters wide, so 'I' can represent effectively any integer that will fit in a FITS columns. Whereas for binary tables 'I' very explicitly refers to a 16-bit signed integer.

Conversions between the two column formats can be performed using the to/from_binary methods on this class, or the to/from_ascii methods on the _ColumnFormat class. But again, not all conversions are possible and may result in a :None:None:`ValueError`.

Similar to _ColumnFormat but specifically for columns in ASCII tables.

Examples

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Hover to see nodes names; edges to Self not shown, Caped at 50 nodes.

Using a canvas is more power efficient and can get hundred of nodes ; but does not allow hyperlinks; , arrows or text (beyond on hover)

SVG is more flexible but power hungry; and does not scale well to 50 + nodes.

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