lincc-frameworks / tape

[Deprecated] Package for working with LSST time series data
https://tape.readthedocs.io
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Allow ColumnMapper Known Map strings to be supplied directly to loader functions #408

Open dougbrn opened 5 months ago

dougbrn commented 5 months ago

Feature request Known maps offer some nice convenience for users to just create a column mapper object from a string (e.g. ColumnMapper().use_known_map("ztf")). It would be even better to just allow users to pass the string as an input to functions like this: from_parquet(column_mapper="ztf") instead of needing to create a ColumnMapper object up front.

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dougbrn commented 5 months ago

Add some kind of output that lets the user know what mappings were assigned