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- /2011/06/cfitsio-wrapper-in-python
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- python
date: 2011-06-21 04:43
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slug: cfitsio-wrapper-in-python
title: cfitsio wrapper in python

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 After several issues with pyfits, and tired of it being so overengineered, I've wrote my own fits I/O package in python, wrapping the C library cfitsio with ctypes.
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 Pretty easy, first version completely developed in 1 day.
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 <a href="https://github.com/zonca/pycfitsio">
  https://github.com/zonca/pycfitsio
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