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  • I recently spent a few weeks at the Medicina Radiotelescope, Italy, working on getting data from a correlator into a format that CASA and AIPS could read. To do this, I made a python script to convert the data into a FITS IDI file. The FITS Interferometry Data Interchange Convention...

    pyFitsidi – Python FITS IDI writing

    Posted on May 18, 2011 | View Comments
    I recently spent a few weeks at the Medicina Radiotelescope, Italy, working on getting data from a correlator into a format that CASA and AIPS could read. To do this, I made a python script to convert the data into a FITS IDI file. The FITS Interferometry Data Interchange Convention...

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  • I’ve been using Sphinx to auto-document some python code, but noticed that there isn’t a Textmate bundle solely for Sphinx. Not to worry though: there is a reStructuredText bundle which will give you some nice commands, and here is a ridiculously simple command to run ‘make html’ for some sphinx...

    A textmate command for sphinx

    Posted on May 7, 2011 | View Comments
    I’ve been using Sphinx to auto-document some python code, but noticed that there isn’t a Textmate bundle solely for Sphinx. Not to worry though: there is a reStructuredText bundle which will give you some nice commands, and here is a ridiculously simple command to run ‘make html’ for some sphinx...

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  • Typing in “bottle python awesome” into Google doesn’t produce anywhere near as many results as it should. Bottle is an amazingly easy to use, lightweight framework with a very simple template engine, and all the goodies that you’ll want for form handling, cookies and that sort of thing. It’s not...

    Bottle: Quick Python Web Apps

    Posted on March 22, 2011 | View Comments
    Typing in “bottle python awesome” into Google doesn’t produce anywhere near as many results as it should. Bottle is an amazingly easy to use, lightweight framework with a very simple template engine, and all the goodies that you’ll want for form handling, cookies and that sort of thing. It’s not...

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  • I’ve been posting a lot of LyX stuff recently, and here’s another: http://elyxer.nongnu.org/ eLyXer is a python app that converts a LyX file to a nicely formatted HTML page. The files I tested worked a treat, so very excited. To install this on a Mac, first get Macports if you...

    eLyXer: tex to HTML

    Posted on February 14, 2011 | View Comments
    I’ve been posting a lot of LyX stuff recently, and here’s another: http://elyxer.nongnu.org/ eLyXer is a python app that converts a LyX file to a nicely formatted HTML page. The files I tested worked a treat, so very excited. To install this on a Mac, first get Macports if you...

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  • I recently ran into an error on my Mac install of LyX, where pdf images weren’t being displayed. After some searching, it looks like the error is a bug in Ghostscript 8.70, and can be fixed easily: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg80148.html With Ghostscript 9.00 now out, this bug should be squashed (although I...

    LyX: Error converting PDF to loadable format

    Posted on January 4, 2011 | View Comments
    I recently ran into an error on my Mac install of LyX, where pdf images weren’t being displayed. After some searching, it looks like the error is a bug in Ghostscript 8.70, and can be fixed easily: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg80148.html With Ghostscript 9.00 now out, this bug should be squashed (although I...

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