PyFits for Windows?

[W. eWatson]

John Yeung wrote:
> On Mar 28, 4:03 pm, Michiel Overtoom <mot... at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> W. eWatson wrote:
>>> It looks like PyFits downloads are for Linux.
>>> Isn't there anything available for Win (xp)?
>> To install it, unpack the tar file and
>> type: python setup.py install"
>>
>> It looks like PyFits is platform-independent.
> 
> Perhaps the original poster is referring to the tar file, which isn't
> natively supported by Windows and possibly isn't understood by WinZip
> either (not sure about that one).  I recommend downloading and
> installing 7-Zip, which is free and handles more formats.  It will let
> you extract the contents, which you can then install normally with the
> setup script as shown above.
> 
> John
Yes, I keep getting to a tar file with Google and just going to the STSci 
site. I use IZarc. Maybe it handles tar files. I'll give it a try.

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