Important notice for PyFITS

PyFITS is deprecated and no longer supported! This repo is archived.

All of the functionality of PyFITS is available in Astropy <http://www.astropy.org>_ as the astropy.io.fits <http://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/io/fits/index.html>_ package. We will NOT be releasing new versions of PyFITS as a stand-alone product.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Documentation

See the Users Guide and API documentation hosted at http://pythonhosted.org/pyfits.

Development

PyFITS is now on GitHub at: https://github.com/spacetelescope/PyFITS

To report an issue in PyFITS, please create an account on GitHub and submit the issue there, or send an e-mail to [email protected]. Before submitting an issue please search the existing issues for similar problems. Before asking for help, please check the PyFITS FAQ for answers to your questions: http://pythonhosted.org/pyfits/appendix/faq.html

The latest source code can be checked out from git with::

git clone https://github.com/spacetelescope/PyFITS.git

An SVN mirror is still maintained as well::

svn checkout https://aeon.stsci.edu/ssb/svn/pyfits/trunk

For Packagers

As of version 3.2.0 PyFITS supports use of the standard CFITSIO library for compression support. A minimal copy of CFITSIO is included in the PyFITS source under cextern/cfitsio. Packagers wishing to link with an existing system CFITSIO remove this directory and modify the setup.cfg as instructed by the comments in that file. CFITSIO support has been tested for versions 3.08 through 3.30. The earliers known fully working version is 3.09. Version 3.08 mostly works except for a bug in CFITSIO itself when decompressing some images with BITPIX=-64. Earlier versions may work but YMMV. Please send in any results of experimentation with other CFITSIO versions.