CartesianRepresentationAttribute

class astropy.coordinates.CartesianRepresentationAttribute(default=None, secondary_attribute='', unit=None)[source]

Bases: astropy.coordinates.Attribute

A frame attribute that is a CartesianRepresentation with specified units.

Parameters
defaultobject

Default value for the attribute if not provided

secondary_attributestr

Name of a secondary instance attribute which supplies the value if default is None and no value was supplied during initialization.

unitunit object or None

Name of a unit that the input will be converted into. If None, no unit-checking or conversion is performed

Methods Summary

convert_input(self, value)

Checks that the input is a CartesianRepresentation with the correct unit, or the special value [0, 0, 0].

Methods Documentation

convert_input(self, value)[source]

Checks that the input is a CartesianRepresentation with the correct unit, or the special value [0, 0, 0].

Parameters
valueobject

Input value to be converted.

Returns
out, convertedcorrectly-typed object, boolean

Tuple consisting of the correctly-typed object and a boolean which indicates if conversion was actually performed.

Raises
ValueError

If the input is not valid for this attribute.