python Archive

  • 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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  • 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 spent a lot of time in the lab last month, taking measurements with an Anritsu 37xxxC series VNA. It would've taken me even longer if I hadn't made this little python script to control the VNA over GPIB.

    Anritsu VNA Python Script

    Posted on May 27, 2009 | View Comments
    I spent a lot of time in the lab last month, taking measurements with an Anritsu 37xxxC series VNA. It would've taken me even longer if I hadn't made this little python script to control the VNA over GPIB.

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