[AstroPy] HTM ID Tools in Python

Erin Sheldon erin.sheldon at gmail.com
Wed Sep 24 08:16:43 EDT 2014


Hi Kaustubh -

I'm the author of esutil.  Can you open an issue on esutil for this?
It should be simple to allow 64-bit.

-Erin Sheldon

On 9/24/14, Kaustubh Waghmare <kaustubh.waghmare at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I came across this package called esutils which can be found at :
> https://code.google.com/p/esutil/
>
> A key limitation of this tool:
> * Does not allow for HTM depth of more than 13 owing to the 32 bit integer
> type used in the underlying C program.
>
> I have done a lot of searching but came across the tools / APIs available
> www.skyserver.org but they are largely based on C#, C++ and Java.
>
> Can someone
> a) point to any utilities similar to the esutils' HTM sub-module but
> without the depth 13 problem OR
> b) any hack I could do to the esutils source code to make it work beyond
> depth 13?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Cheers,
> Kaustubh
>


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Erin Scott Sheldon
Brookhaven National Laboratory erin dot sheldon at gmail dot com



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