On Mar 29, 9:39 am, "W. eWatson" <notval...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > John Yeung wrote: > > On Mar 28, 4:03 pm, Michiel Overtoom <mot...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > >> W. eWatson wrote: > >>> It looks like PyFits downloads are for Linux. > >>> Isn't there anything available for Win (xp)? > >> To install it, unpack the tar file and > >> type: python setup.py install" > > >> It looks like PyFits is platform-independent. > > > Perhaps the original poster is referring to the tar file, which isn't > > natively supported by Windows and possibly isn't understood by WinZip > > either (not sure about that one). I recommend downloading and > > installing 7-Zip, which is free and handles more formats. It will let > > you extract the contents, which you can then install normally with the > > setup script as shown above. > > > John > > Yes, I keep getting to a tar file with Google and just going to the STSci > site. I use IZarc. Maybe it handles tar files. I'll give it a try. > > -- > W. eWatson > > (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) > Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet > > Web Page: <www.speckledwithstars.net/>
A windows tar can be found at: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gtar.htm (personally, I use cygwin) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
