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.

The easiest way to start using python-casacore is to enable the KERN suite repository and install the binary package :

$ sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kernsuite/kern-1
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install python-casacore

install these requirements:

• setuptools
• Casacore >= 2.0
• Boost-python
• numpy
• cfitsio

On ubuntu you can install these with:

• enable the KERN suite

• install build dependencies:

  $ apt-get install libcasacore2-dev python-numpy \
      python-setuptools libboost-python-dev libcfitsio3-dev

• compile and install:

  $ python ./setup.py install

• if you need to supply compile parameters, for example if you have your casacore library installed in a different location have a look at the build_ext help:

  $ python ./setup.py build_ext -h

  For example, if casacore is installed in /opt/local/, you can specify the library path and include path with:

  $ python ./setup.py build_ext -I/opt/local/include -L/opt/local/lib
  
  $ python ./setup.py install

python-casacore is also available trough pip. Note that you need to manually satisfy the requirements mentioned above:

$ pip install python-casacore

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

• Ger van Diepen
• Malte Marquarding
• Gijs Molenaar