PFits

PFITS (A Python FITS iterface employing CFITSIO)

DESCRIPTION This package uses the CFITSIO library to interface to FITS files from Python. Particular attention has been paid to supporting ASCII and BINARY tables with fixed and variable-length entries. Data I/O is handled through numpy arrays.

ON THE WEB There are further instructions, documentation, and a FAQ at: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/~aparsons/aipy/aipy.cgi/PFits

INSTALLATION PFITS requires Python >= 2.4 (and < 3.0 for now). You also need to have numpy >= 1.2 installed on your system.

INSTALL AS ROOT
    > sudo python setup.py install

INSTALL AS USER
    You'll first install to a directory of your choice:
    $ python setup.py install --install-lib <module_dir> \
        --install-scripts <scripts_dir>
    This puts the python module in <module_dir>, and the command-line
    scripts in <scripts_dir>.  The next thing is to tell python where to
    look for the python module.  This is done by setting the PYTHONPATH
    variable to point to <module_dir>.  In bash, this looks like:
    $ export PYTHONPATH=<module_dir>
    However, you'll have to type this every time you open a terminal.  To
    avoid this, add the export line to the .bashrc file in your home dir.

Enjoy, Aaron Parsons

PACKAGE INFO FOR DEVELOPERS This version of PFITS uses CFITSIO version 3.14, the code for which is stored in src/cfitsio.