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AHELP for CIAO 4.17 Sherpa

show_data

Context: info

Synopsis

Summarize the available data sets.

Syntax

show_data(id=None, outfile=None, clobber=False)

Description

Display information on the data sets that have been loaded. The details depend on the type of the data set (e.g. 1D, image, PHA files).


PARAMETERS

The parameters for this function are:

Parameter Type information Definition
id int, str, or None, optional The data set. If not given then all data sets are displayed.
outfile str, optional If not given the results are displayed to the screen, otherwise it is taken to be the name of the file to write the results to.
clobber bool, optional If `outfile` is not none , then this flag controls whether an existing file can be overwritten ( True ) or if it raises an exception ( False , the default setting).

Bugs

See the bugs pages on the Sherpa website for an up-to-date listing of known bugs.

See Also

filtering
show_filter
info
get_functions, list_bkg_ids, list_functions, show_all, show_bkg_model, show_bkg_source, show_conf, show_covar, show_fit, show_method, show_model, show_proj, show_source, show_stat