code: def read_astropy_ascii (self, **kwargs):
          
          from astropy.io import ascii
          return ascii.read (text_type (self), **kwargs)
docs: Open as an ASCII table, returning a :class:`astropy.table.Table` object.
          Keyword arguments are passed to :func:`astropy.io.ascii.open`; valid
          ones likely include:
  
          - ``names = <list>`` (column names)
          - ``format`` ('basic', 'cds', 'csv', 'ipac', ...)
          - ``guess = True`` (guess table format)
          - ``delimiter`` (column delimiter)
          - ``comment = <regex>``
          - ``header_start = <int>`` (line number of header, ignoring blank and comment lines)
          - ``data_start = <int>``
          - ``data_end = <int>``
          - ``converters = <dict>``
          - ``include_names = <list>`` (names of columns to include)
          - ``exclude_names = <list>`` (names of columns to exclude; applied after include)
          - ``fill_values = <dict>`` (filler values)