[AstroPy] [ANN] sep v0.1.0: Source Extractor functionality in python

[Kyle Barbary]

Hi all,

I’m pleased to announce the first release of the SEP python module. SEP
makes available from Python a few of the algorithms used in Source
Extractor. So far, this includes global background estimation, object
detection, and circular aperture photometry. It operates on plain ol’ numpy
arrays.

The Python module is largely a wrapper for a C library (also named SEP)
that is derived directly from the Source Extractor code base, so it is very
fast.

https://github.com/kbarbary/sep-python

*Install*

   - with pip: pip install sep
   - with conda (linux only): conda install -c
   https://conda.binstar.org/kbarbary sep

Feedback, bug reports, and contributions welcome.

Finally, note that there has been some discussion of including SEP in the
photutils (astropy-affiliated) package, and this may still happen. However,
it may be some time until it is included in a photutils release, so I
wanted to make it available as a stand-alone package as well.

- Kyle
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