changes suggested by @bsipocz, most importantly adding platform-independent newline handling

Author: Edward Molter

astroquery/solarsystem/pds/core.py

@@ -186,7 +186,6 @@ def ephemeris_async(self, planet, *, epoch=None, location=None, neptune_arcmodel
             )
 
         # configure request_payload for ephemeris query
-
         request_payload = dict(
             [
                 ("abbrev", planet[:3]),
@@ -389,13 +388,13 @@ def _parse_result(self, response, verbose=None):
 
             # Neptune ring arcs data
             elif group.startswith("Courage"):
-                lines = group.split(os.linesep)[:5] #requires explicit split by os.linesep because windows and macos handle this text block differently
+                lines = group.splitlines()
                 for i in range(len(lines)):
                     l = lines[i].split(":")
                     ring = l[0].split("longitude")[0].strip()
                     [min_angle, max_angle] = [
-                        float(s)
-                        for s in re.sub("[a-zA-Z]+", "", l[1]).split()
+                        float(s.strip())
+                        for s in re.sub("[a-zA-Z]+", "", l[1]).strip("()").split()
                     ]
                     if i == 0:
                         ringtable_names = ("ring", "min_angle", "max_angle")

docs/solarsystem/pds/pds.rst

@@ -63,13 +63,15 @@ Outputs
 ---------
 ``bodytable`` is a `~astropy.table.QTable` containing ephemeris information on the moons in the planetary system. Every column is assigned a unit from `~astropy.units`. We can get a list of all the columns in this table with:
 
+
 .. doctest-remote-data::
 
 	>>> print(bodytable.columns)
 	<TableColumns names=('NAIF ID','Body','RA','Dec','RA (deg)','Dec (deg)','dRA','dDec','sub_obs_lon','sub_obs_lat','sub_sun_lon','sub_sun_lat','phase','distance')>
 
 ``ringtable`` is a `~astropy.table.QTable` containing ephemeris information on the individual rings in the planetary system. Every column is assigned a unit from `~astropy.units`. We can get a list of all the columns in this table with:
 
+
 .. doctest-remote-data::
 
 	>>> print(ringtable.columns)
@@ -93,7 +95,6 @@ Note that the behavior of ``ringtable`` changes depending on the planet you quer
 
 System-wide data are available as metadata in both ``bodytable`` and ``ringtable`` (if ``ringtable`` exists), e.g.:
 
-
 .. doctest-remote-data::
 
 	>>> systemtable = bodytable.meta
@@ -106,5 +107,3 @@ Reference/API
 
 .. automodapi:: astroquery.solarsystem.pds
     :no-inheritance-diagram:
-
-.. _NASA Planetary Data System's Ring Node System: https://pds-rings.seti.org/