Replacement for IDL
Project description
Description
Python replacements for functions that are part of the IDL built-in library, or part of astronomical IDL libraries. The emphasis is on reproducing results of the astronomical library functions. Only the bare minimum of IDL built-in functions are implemented to support this.
There are three astronomical IDL libraries targeted:
Goddard utilities (which are distributed with idlutils)
The current goal is to get this package affiliated with the astropy project.
History
This code was initially developed on the SDSS-III svn repository. It was moved to the new GitHub repository on 2013-03-06. The present location of the repository is http://github.com/weaverba137/pydl .