Python wrappers to WCSLIB
Project description
Introduction
pywcs is a set of routines for handling the FITS World Coordinate System (WCS) standard. It is a thin wrapper around the high- and mid-level interfaces of Dr. Mark Calabretta’s WCSLIB available here:
In addition, there are extensions (written in C) to support Spitzer Simple Imaging Polynomial (SIP) convention keywords and Paper IV table lookup distortion.
Please direct any questions to:
Build instructions
pywcs includes its own copy of WCSLIB.
pywcs requires:
Numpy 1.3 or later
pyfits 1.4 or later
pywcs uses the standard Python distutils system to build and install itself. From the command line run:
python setup.py install
to install pywcs.
Building documentation
Optionally, the documentation can be built using Sphinx (http://sphinx.pocoo.org).
After installing pywcs, ‘cd’ into the ‘doc’ directory and:
make html
The documentation is also available online at:
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