python-casacore 0.1

A wrapper around CASACORE, the radio astronomy library

python-casacore

Python-casacore is a set of Python bindings for casacore, a library used in radio astronomy. It hopefully will replace the old pyrap some day.

• https://code.google.com/p/casacore/

• https://code.google.com/p/pyrap/

Please don’t use yet, unless you want to be involved in the development and testing.

Installation

to install run (change the include path to your casacore headers path):

$ python setup.py build_ext -I/usr/include/casacore
$ python setup.py install

Requirements

• setuptools

• Casacore >= 2.0: https://code.google.com/p/casacore/

• Boost-python: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_55_0/libs/python/doc/

• numpy: http://www.numpy.org/

• cfitsio: http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/fitsio/

on ubuntu:

• enable the SKA-SA launchpad PPA: https://launchpad.net/~ska-sa/+archive/ubuntu/main

• enable the SKA-sa launchpas BETA PPA: https://launchpad.net/~ska-sa/+archive/ubuntu/beta

• install build dependencies:

  $ apt-get install libcasacore-dev casacore-data python-numpy python-nose \
      python-setuptools libboost-python-dev libcfitsio3-dev

Staying up to date

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https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pyrap-devel

About

• Ger van Diepen - [e-mail]

• Malte Marquarding - [e-mail]

• Gijs Molenaar - [e-mail]