Workaround for empty column in HDUIndexTable
@@ -47,7 +47,8 @@ class HDUIndexTable(Table):
table = super().read(filename, **kwargs)
table.meta["BASE_DIR"] = filename.parent.as_posix()
- return table
+ # TODO: simply return the table when empty string column is not masked by default
+ return table.filled(fill_value='')
@property
def base_dir(self):
