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PyFITS provides an interface to
FITS
formatted files under the
Python
scripting language and
PyRAF,
the Python-based interface to IRAF. It is useful both for
interactive data analysis and for writing analysis scripts
in Python using FITS files as either input or output. PyFITS
is a development project of the Science Software Branch at
the Space Telescope Science Institute.
PyFITS and all necessary modules are included with the stsci_python
distribution and associated updates to it (though what
is included there may not be the very latest version). PyFITS
does not require PyRAF however. It may be used independently
so long as numpy (or numarray) is installed.
The
manual provides a tutorial on how to use PyFITS with
FITS images and FITS tables, along with an extensive
description of all the methods (currently) available for
working with FITS files. This manual, however, is only a
DRAFT document and is very much a work-in-progress.
The current version of PyFITS is v2.1.1 (2009 April 22).
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