[AstroPy] Problem running pywcs example

[Peter Erwin]

Hi,

I decided to check out pywcs (in part because using Pyraf to get pixel values from
RA,Dec pairs seemed to be overkill, and wcwcstran was failing to work for SDSS
images with declinations close to zero).

The installation ("python setup.py install") seemd to go fine, but I ran into the following when I tried
running the example from http://stsdas.stsci.edu/astrolib/pywcs/examples.html

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In [164]: hdulist = pyfits.open("pgc1905g_94-220.fits")   # this is an SDSS g-band image
In [165]: wcs = pywcs.WCS(hdulist[0].header)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
AttributeError                            Traceback (most recent call last)

/Users/erwin/Documents/Working/ESO_observing/WFI/targets/pgc1905_808/<ipython console> in <module>()

/Users/erwin/lib/python/pywcs/pywcs.py in __init__(self, header, fobj, key, minerr, relax, naxis)
    176             self.naxis = wcsprm.naxis
    177 
--> 178             det2im = self._read_det2im_kw(header, fobj)
    179             cpdis = self._read_distortion_kw(
    180                 header, fobj, key=key,dist='CPDIS', err=minerr)

/Users/erwin/lib/python/pywcs/pywcs.py in _read_det2im_kw(self, header, fobj)
    278         cdelt = [1.,1.]
    279 
--> 280         if not isinstance(fobj, pyfits.NP_pyfits.HDUList):
    281             return (None, None)
    282 

AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'NP_pyfits'
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My system is: MacBook Pro (2009) running Mac OS 10.6.4, Python 2.6.5 (standard framework install
from python.org) via ipython 0.10
numpy 1.4.1
pyfits 2.3.1 [same problem occurred for pyfits 2.2.2; I 
pywcs v1.9-4.4.4

(All packages are installed inside the framework directory, *except* for pyfits, which installed in 
~/lib/python )

Any suggestions?

   -- Peter

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