astro/py-fitsio 1.2.5 DragonFly

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