Suggestions to saving of normalised spectra results

[stormnick]

Hi,

Just a small suggestion. Perhaps it would be nice if the top column was saved with a #. Right now it is saved as wave flux normed_flux normed_error, which can cause TOPCAT (especially TOPCAT!) or np.loadtxt (without skiprows) to interpret it as part of the data and thus a string. Maybe changing it to the # wave flux normed_flux normed_error would make it a tiny bit easier to load normalised data without the need to specify first column as a comment every time? Cheers.

P.S. Thanks a lot for switching to PySide6, it works great on my Mac now.

[stormnick]

Also to add to that, another potential suggestion: when the input spectra has nan values at some wavelengths, suppnet only saves two columns for those wavelengths (wavelength and not sure what, I guess normalisation error?). It would be nice if it would save 4 columns regardless (makes it easier to read by other programs once again). I don't particularly care if those columns also become nan or 0, but that would simplify usage for input spectra with nan values. Thanks!

[stormnick]

And maybe one last thing, it would be great if I could choose whether to save the flux column. I don't always care about flux in my normalised spectra file, because I have flux in the original file as well. When I do the fitting, I mostly care about normalised flux. It would be cool to have an option to not save flux, and just have two (three) main columns: wavelength normalised_flux error. Just a suggestion as well. Cheers!

[RozanskiT]

Thank you for all the feedback! 👍 I'll take a look, how much problems would it cause to add a "#" sign in the beginning of the header and then consider this. The second and third comment will be addressed, as soon as I will have a while to sit on the SUPPNet development.