`astropy.io.fits.header:Header.tofile`

source: /astropy/io/fits/header.py:711

Signature

def tofile(self, fileobj, sep = '', endcard = True, padding = True, overwrite = False)

Summary

Writes the header to file or file-like object.

Extended Summary

By default this writes the header exactly as it would be written to a FITS file, with the END card included and padding to the next multiple of 2880 bytes. However, aspects of this may be controlled.

Parameters

fileobj : path-like or file-like, optional: Either the pathname of a file, or an open file handle or file-like object.
sep : str, optional: The character or string with which to separate cards. By default there is no separator, but one could use '\\n', for example, to separate each card with a new line
endcard : bool, optional: If True (default) adds the END card to the end of the header string
padding : bool, optional: If True (default) pads the string with spaces out to the next multiple of 2880 characters
overwrite : bool, optional: If True, overwrite the output file if it exists. Raises an OSError if False and the output file exists. Default is False.

Aliases

astropy.io.fits.Header.tofile