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Use `pandas` or `astropy.tables` in Lightcurve?

See original GitHub issue

There was a suggestion today to use either pandas or astropy.tables within the Lightcurve class. pandas has the advantage that it has lots of functionality built-in.

astropy.tables has the advantage that it connects to other useful astropy concepts such as units and time concepts (which might allow us to provide time conversions more easily).

Not something that needs to be fixed instantaneously, more a call for discussion.

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Created 7 years ago
Comments:6 (3 by maintainers)

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abigailStevcommented, Mar 25, 2016

Keep an eye on this astropy feature request for a time series module based on astropy tables: https://github.com/astropy/astropy-APEs/pull/12

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matteobachetticommented, Jan 18, 2021

@dhuppenkothen I think we should pin this and think about the use of Astropy’s timeseries objects

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