Surveying the Universe
IDL code miscellany
IDLdoc 3.0 (more info here) gives my badly-written bits of IDL the deceptive appearance of being well designed, useful and user-friendly. So I've made a few available here for your enjoyment.
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PSFs in IDL
about 2 years ago - No comments
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about 2 years ago - No comments
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about 4 years ago - No comments
Now Python and IDL can talk to each other (okay, Python talks to IDL and IDL does what it's told), using pIDLy (pronounce as you please). I experimented with a few other solutions available online but couldn't get them to work. So I cobbled this one together with surprisingly little trouble, thanks largely to pexpect.
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