PyFits for Windows?

[andrew cooke]

W. eWatson wrote:
> I downloaded the tar file, and untarred it with IZarc. That's a strange
> way
> to package it, that is, for Windows. This almost suggests not many Win
> users
> are using it.
>
> One of the pages, <http://www.scipy.org/wikis/topical_software/Tutorial>,
> has a lot of tutorial material. It almost looks like overload on the
> subject. I'm hoping the use of this library will be relative simple for my
> purposes, which are basically to write an image to a fits file with a
> somewhat simple header, which might include lat/long, date, image size,
> date-time, and a comment.

i have no idea what the current status is, but there used to be a python
implementation of the iraf astronomy image processing system (iraf) called
pyraf.  if was developed by stsci, if i remember correctly.  you might
find that useful.  it will certainly support manipulating fits files etc,
but may be a bit "heavweight" for your needs.

andrew