casatools 6.7.3.21

CASAtools

If you are looking for the place to check out CASA with Git, please refer to the top level directory of this repository.

CASAtools is a self-contained python module that provides the tools from the CASA project.

Building casatools

Please refer to the top level readme.md.

Testing casatools

A quick test to see if the casatools installation is successful is to try loading the CASAtools module:

$ python3
Python 3.8.13 (default, Nov  8 2022, 17:19:05) 
[GCC 8.5.0 20210514 (Red Hat 8.5.0-15)] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from casatools import image
>>> ia = image( )
>>> ia.fromshape("mytest.im",[20,20])
2019-03-25 16:15:08     INFO    ImageFactory::createImage       Created Paged image 'mytest.im' of shape [20, 20] with float valued pixels.
True
>>>
-bash-4.2$

Available Tools

XML

Tool Specification

    <tool name="tool-name">
        <shortdescription>one-line description</shortdescription>
        <description>paragraph description</description>

        <needs>tool-name</needs>

        <code>
            <include>path to headerfile</include>
            <private>
                <include>path to headerfile</include>
            </private>
        </code>

        <method name="method-name">
            <shortdescription>one-line description</shortdescription>
            <description>paragraph description</description>
            <input>
                <param name="param-name">
                    <description>short description</description>
                    <type units="unit-name" mustexist="true">type-name</type>
                    <value>value-content</value>
                </param>
            </input>
            <output>
                <param name="param-name">
                    <description>short description</description>
                    <type units="unit-name" mustexist="true">type-name</type>
                    <value>value-content</value>
                </param>
            </output>

            <returns type="type-name"/>
        </method>
    </tool>

• Red text indicate unique names. They may be developer specified (e.g. tool-name), they may be predefined enumerations (e.g. unit-name), or they may be both (e.g. type-name).
• Blue XML elements or attributes indicates optional items (zero or one).
• Green XML elements can be repeated.
• Black XML elements or attributes must be supplied (once)