DUMMY An example format that does nothing.

Extensions: .foobar, .nonexistentext

The dummy format is an example format that does nothing. It will never indicate that it can read or write a file. When explicitly asked to read, it will simply read the bytes. When explicitly asked to write, it will raise an error.

This documentation is shown when the user does help('thisformat').

Parameters for reading

Specify arguments in numpy doc style here.

Parameters for saving

Specify arguments in numpy doc style here.