DEPRECATED; see :func:`~skyfield.data.hipparcos.load_dataframe() instead.

def get(which):
    "DEPRECATED; see :func:`~skyfield.data.hipparcos.load_dataframe() instead."
    if isinstance(which, str):
        pattern = ('H|      %6s' % which).encode('ascii')
        for star in load(lambda line: line.startswith(pattern)):
            return star
    else:
        patterns = set(id.encode('ascii').rjust(6) for id in which)
        return list(load(lambda line: line[8:14] in patterns))