Multi-Order Coverage map module for Python

Introduction

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PyMOC is a module for manipulating Multi-Order Coverage (MOC) maps. It includes support for reading and writing the three encodings mentioned in the IVOA recommendation: FITS, JSON and ASCII.

PyMOC also includes a utility program pymoctool to allow MOC files to be manipulated from the command line.

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Installation

The module can be installed using the setup.py script::

python setup.py install

Unit Tests


Prior to installation, the unit tests can be run using::

    PYTHONPATH=lib python3 -m unittest

or::

    PYTHONPATH=lib python2 -m unittest discover

The `test-extra` directory contains additional tests which may take
longer to perform.  You can exclude these by specifying just the
plain `test` directory, for example with::

    PYTHONPATH=lib python -m unittest discover -s test

The routines included in the doctests should also be covered by
the unit tests.  However to ensure the documentation is correct,
they can be checked with::

    sphinx-build -b doctest doc doc/_build/doctest

Requirements

For reading and writing data in FITS format, the astropy library is required.

Healpy is needed for some of the utility functions such as plot_moc and catalog_to_moc.

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License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.