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# write

`astropy.io.ascii.ui.``write`(table, output=None, format=None, Writer=None, **kwargs)

  Write the input `table` to `filename`. Most of the default behavior for various parameters is determined by the Writer class.

  Parameters:

  - table – input table (Reader object, NumPy struct array, list of lists, etc)
  - output – output [filename, file-like object] (default = sys.stdout)
  - format – output format (default=``basic``)
  - delimiter – column delimiter string
  - write_comment – string defining a comment line in table
  - quotechar – one-character string to quote fields containing special characters
  - formats – dict of format specifiers or formatting functions
  - strip_whitespace – strip surrounding whitespace from column values (default=True)
  - names – list of names corresponding to each data column
  - include_names – list of names to include in output (default=None selects all names)
  - exclude_names – list of names to exlude from output (applied after `include_names`)
  - Writer – Writer class (DEPRECATED) (default=``ascii.Basic``)