python-casacore 3.1.1

A wrapper around CASACORE, the radio astronomy library

python-casacore

Python-casacore is a set of Python bindings for casacore, a c++ library used in radio astronomy. Python-casacore replaces the old pyrap.

The python-casacore documentation can be found on casacore.github.io/python-casacore.

Installation

Debian & Ubuntu

python-casacore is now part of Debian and Ubuntu and can be installed using apt:

$ sudo apt-get install python-casacore

Kern

If you want a more up to date version of python-casacore and you are running the latest Ubuntu LTS you can enable the KERN suite repository and install the binary package

$ sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kernsuite/kern-5
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install python-casacore

from source

install these requirements:

• setuptools
• Casacore
• Boost-python
• numpy
• cfitsio

On ubuntu you can install these with:

$ apt-get install casacore-dev python-numpy \
    python-setuptools libboost-python-dev libcfitsio3-dev wcslib-dev

• compile and install:

  $ pip install python-casacore
  

• or if you are installing from the source repository:

  $ python ./setup.py install
  

• If the compilation fails you might need to help the compiler find the paths to the boost and casacore libraries and headers. You can control this with the CFLAGS environment variable. For example on OS X when using homebrew and clang you need to do something like this:

  CFLAGS="-std=c++11 \
          -I/usr/local/Cellar/boost/1.68.0/include/ \
          -I/usr/local/include/  \
          -L/usr/local/Cellar/boost/1.68.0/lib \
          -L/usr/local/lib/" \
          pip install python-casacore
  

Support

if you have any problems, suggestions or questions please open an issue on the python-casacore github issue tracker.

Credits

• Ger van Diepen
• Malte Marquarding
• Gijs Molenaar