utilities¶
A miscellaneous utilities package.
Notes¶
For questions or comments please see our github page. We encourage and appreciate user feedback.
Most of these notebooks rely on basic knowledge of the Astropy FITS I/O module. If you are unfamiliar with this module please see the Astropy FITS I/O user documentation before using this documentation.
The utilities package can be easily replicated with Python functionality.
Contents:
detab-entab-translit¶
Please review the Notes section above before running any examples in this notebook
Detab and entab are used to replace tabs with blanks or vice versa. Python contains a built-in replace method which can be used for this purpose.
lcase-ucase¶
Please review the Notes section above before running any examples in this notebook
lcase and ucase are used to convert a file to lower case or uppercase.
Python contains built in
functionality
for string replacement, including lower and upper methods.
urand¶
Please review the Notes section above before running any examples in this notebook
Urand provides a uniform random number generator. This utility is
contained in Numpy with the
numpy.randome.uniform
task. Numpy also contains other types of random
generation.
Not Replacing¶
curfit - Fit data with Chebyshev, Legendre or spline curve. See images.imfit.it1d-lineclean
polyfit - Fit polynomial to list of X,Y data. See images.imfit.fit1d-lineclean
surfit - Fit a surface, z=f(x,y), to a set of x, y, z points. See images.imfit.imsurfit
split - Split a large file into smaller segments. Deprecated.