writeto

astropy.io.votable.writeto(table, file, tabledata_format=None)

Writes a VOTableFile to a VOTABLE xml file.

Parameters:

tableVOTableFile or Table instance.

filepython:str or file-like (writeable)

Path or file object to write to

tabledata_formatpython:str, optional

Override the format of the table(s) data to write. Must be one of tabledata (text representation), binary or binary2. By default, use the format that was specified in each table object as it was created or read in. See Data Serialization Formats.