Erin Sheldon

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If I understand your meaning, I think that what we do now matches python semantics: If you open a file for write, and don't write anything, it just leaves an...

detecting the empty file would require a bit of care, since cfitsio buffers.

None of the core developers uses windows, so we haven't been able to dig into any of the windows related issues. A contribution from a windows expert would be highly...

There is always at least one extension in a FITS file, so I think this is the right behavior. Maybe we could add a method that does something like `len(fits)...

I think the bug here is that `fits[-1]` doesn't work. The reason len creates the hdu list is because FITS files can have thousands of extensions, so this is done...

I didn't add the bz2 support, can't recall who did. Anyone have ideas?

Just to restate, this is an issue with bz2 support. A quick fix would be to make sure libbz2 is installed with headers. but we should be detecting that

I looked into this a bit more. I didn't add the bzip support. It looks like currently installation of fitsio requires libbz2 to be installed (with headers), and this is...

Pip install does work, but you need to install libbz2 first

I think we understand the problem here, that you need libbz2, it is a dependency. That dependency cannot be installed from pip. Is it not possible to install libbz2 on...