python-casacore

Python-casacore is a set of Python bindings for casacore, a c++ library used in radio astronomy. Python-casacore replaces the old pyrap.

The python-casacore documentation can be found on casacore.github.io/python-casacore.

Build status

Installation

Binary wheels

We distribute binary manylinux2014 for Linux, which requires pip >= 19.3. To install python-casacore from a binary wheel run:

$ pip install python-casacore

Debian & Ubuntu

python-casacore is now part of Debian and Ubuntu and can be installed using apt:

$ sudo apt-get install python3-casacore

from source

install these requirements:

• Casacore
• Boost-python
• numpy
• cfitsio
• wcslib
• pip

On ubuntu you can install these with:

$ apt-get install casacore-dev libboost-python-dev python3-numpy \
    libcfitsio3-dev wcslib-dev python3-pip

• compile and install:

  $ pip install --no-binary python-casacore python-casacore

• or if you are installing from the source repository:

  $ pip install .

• If the compilation fails you might need to help the compiler find the paths to the boost and casacore libraries and headers. You can control this with the CFLAGS environment variable. For example on OS X when using homebrew and clang you need to do something like this:

  CFLAGS="-std=c++11 \
          -I/usr/local/Cellar/boost/1.68.0/include/ \
          -I/usr/local/include/  \
          -L/usr/local/Cellar/boost/1.68.0/lib \
          -L/usr/local/lib/" \
          pip install python-casacore

Support

if you have any problems, suggestions or questions please open an issue on the python-casacore github issue tracker.

Credits

• Ger van Diepen
• Malte Marquarding
• Gijs Molenaar
• Tammo Jan Dijkema