py311-fitsio

Full featured python library to read from and write to FITS files

fitsio is a python extension written in c and python. Data are read into numerical python arrays. Some Features: - Read from and write to image, binary, and ascii table extensions. - Read arbitrary subsets of table columns and rows without loading all the data to memory. - Read image subsets without reading the whole image. Write subsets to existing images. - Write and read variable length table columns. - Read images and tables using slice notation similar to numpy arrays. This is like a more powerful memmap, since it is column-aware for tables. - Append rows to an existing table. Delete row sets and row ranges. Resize tables, or insert rows. - Query the columns and rows in a table. - Read and write header keywords. - Read and write images in tile-compressed format (RICE,GZIP,PLIO,HCOMPRESS). - Read/write gzip files directly. Read unix compress (.Z,.zip) and bzip2 (.bz2) files. - TDIM information is used to return array columns in the correct shape. - Write and read string table columns, including array columns of arbitrary shape. - Read and write complex, bool (logical), unsigned integer, signed bytes types. - Write checksums into the header and verify them. - Insert new columns into tables in-place. - Iterate over rows in a table. Data are buffered for efficiency. - python 3 support, including python 3 strings