python-casacore 3.8.1

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.

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Installation

Binary wheels

We distribute binary manylinux2014 for Linux, which requires pip >= 19.3. To install python-casacore from a binary wheel run:

$ pip install python-casacore

Debian & Ubuntu

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

$ sudo apt-get install python3-casacore

from source

install these requirements:

• Casacore

• Boost-python

• numpy

• cfitsio

• wcslib

• pip

On ubuntu you can install these with:

$ apt-get install casacore-dev libboost-python-dev python3-numpy \
    libcfitsio3-dev wcslib-dev python3-pip

• compile and install:

  $ pip install --no-binary python-casacore python-casacore

• or if you are installing from the source repository:

  $ pip 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 CMAKE_ARGS environment variable. For example:

  $ CMAKE_ARGS="-DCASACORE_ROOT_DIR=/path/to/casacore" pip install .

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

• Tammo Jan Dijkema