astropy.fits help: know any discussion sites? do you have experience?
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JeanTate
astropy is a very useful package for use in Python; in particular, its .fits is great for handling FITS files (extensions, headers, data ...) robustly and easily.
However, it also has its peculiarities, especially from my perspective as a self-taught newbie. For example, try as I might searching the official documentation and various online tutorials, I have been unable to find a simple, robust way to copy cards from one header to another (not card values, nor card comments; those I can do); nor how to copy a header and use it as the header of a new FITS file. Data manipulation, on the other hand, has caused me very few wasted hours.
I have not been able to find an online forum where I could ask questions about astropy, other than StackExchange.
Do you know of any such forum?
Are you, perhaps, comfortable enough with astropy.fits that I could pick your brain?
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