Source code for special.fits

#! /usr/bin/env python

"""
Module with various fits handling functions (same as in ``VIP``)
"""


__author__ = 'Carlos Alberto Gomez Gonzalez'
__all__ = ['open_fits',
           'info_fits',
           'write_fits']


import os
import numpy as np
from astropy.io import fits as ap_fits


[docs]def open_fits(fitsfilename, n=0, header=False, ignore_missing_end=False, precision=np.float32, return_memmap=False, verbose=True, **kwargs): """ Load a fits file into a memory as numpy array. Parameters ---------- fitsfilename : string or pathlib.Path Name of the fits file or ``pathlib.Path`` object n : int, optional It chooses which HDU to open. Default is the first one. header : bool, optional Whether to return the header along with the data or not. precision : numpy dtype, optional Float precision, by default np.float32 or single precision float. ignore_missing_end : bool optional Allows to open fits files with a header missing END card. return_memmap : bool, optional If True, the function returns the handle to the FITS file opened by mmap. With the hdulist, array data of each HDU to be accessed with mmap, rather than being read into memory all at once. This is particularly useful for working with very large arrays that cannot fit entirely into physical memory. verbose : bool, optional If True prints message of completion. **kwargs: optional Optional arguments to the astropy.io.fits.open() function. E.g. "output_verify" can be set to ignore, in case of non-standard header. Returns ------- hdulist : hdulist [memmap=True] FITS file ``n`` hdulist. data : numpy ndarray [memmap=False] Array containing the frames of the fits-cube. header : dict [memmap=False, header=True] Dictionary containing the fits header. """ fitsfilename = str(fitsfilename) if not os.path.isfile(fitsfilename): fitsfilename += '.fits' hdulist = ap_fits.open(fitsfilename, ignore_missing_end=ignore_missing_end, memmap=True, **kwargs) if return_memmap: return hdulist[n] else: data = hdulist[n].data data = np.array(data, dtype=precision) if header: header = hdulist[0].header if verbose: print("Fits HDU-{} data and header successfully loaded. " "Data shape: {}".format(n, data.shape)) return data, header else: if verbose: print("Fits HDU-{} data successfully loaded. " "Data shape: {}".format(n, data.shape)) return data
[docs]def info_fits(fitsfilename, **kwargs): """ Print the information about a fits file. Parameters ---------- fitsfilename : str Path to the fits file. **kwargs: optional Optional arguments to the astropy.io.fits.open() function. E.g. "output_verify" can be set to ignore, in case of non-standard header. """ with ap_fits.open(fitsfilename, memmap=True, **kwargs) as hdulist: hdulist.info()
[docs]def write_fits(fitsfilename, array, header=None, output_verify='exception', precision=np.float32, verbose=True): """ Write array and header into FITS file. If there is a previous file with the same filename then it's replaced. Parameters ---------- fitsfilename : string Full path of the fits file to be written. array : numpy ndarray Array to be written into a fits file. header : numpy ndarray, optional Array with header. output_verify : str, optional {"fix", "silentfix", "ignore", "warn", "exception"} Verification options: https://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/io/fits/api/verification.html precision : numpy dtype, optional Float precision, by default np.float32 or single precision float. verbose : bool, optional If True prints message. """ array = array.astype(precision, copy=False) if not fitsfilename.endswith('.fits'): fitsfilename += '.fits' if os.path.exists(fitsfilename): os.remove(fitsfilename) ap_fits.writeto(fitsfilename, array, header, output_verify) if verbose: print("Fits file successfully overwritten") else: ap_fits.writeto(fitsfilename, array, header, output_verify) if verbose: print("Fits file successfully saved")