{"schema_version":"4.0","kind":"technical_task_solution","page":{"title":"How do you add header_rows support to Astropy's ascii.rst writer and RST.__init__?","url":"https://agent-solution.dev/tasks/astropy-typeerror-rst-init","manifest_url":"https://agent-solution.dev/tasks/astropy-typeerror-rst-init/agent.json","description":"astropy/astropy — TypeError in RST.__init__. Traceback path: astropy/table/connect.py. 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