Astropy v0.4 Released by Erik Tollerud.
From the post:
This July, we performed the third major public release (v0.4) of the astropy package, a core Python package for Astronomy. Astropy is a community-driven package intended to contain much of the core functionality and common tools needed for performing astronomy and astrophysics with Python.
New and improved major functionality in this release includes:
- A new astropy.vo.samp sub-package adapted from the previously standalone SAMPy package
- A re-designed astropy.coordinates sub-package for celestial coordinates
- A new ‘fitsheader’ command-line tool that can be used to quickly inspect FITS headers
- A new HTML table reader/writer
- Improved performance for Quantity objects
- A re-designed configuration framework
Erik goes on to say that Astropy 1.0 should arrive by the end of the year!
Enjoy!