Hi,

I'd be interested in some astronomical utilities from the IDL Astronomy User's
Library (http://idlastro.gsfc.nasa.gov/contents.html) converted to
python/numpy. I had a look to idl2python
(http://software.pseudogreen.org/i2py/), but the automatic translation fails,
mostly because (I think) the conversion is Numeric-oriented, and because of
the intrinsic differences in the function argument management between IDL and
python.

Perhaps you could give some examples of where the conversion programs is not working for numpy.

So, before pursuing in this direction, I'd like to know if this exercice has
already been done, at least partially.

Have you contacted the author of the package? The website states that the package has been tested on the IDL astronomy library, so he should be able to give you idea of how successful it was. If you do hear back from him I'd be interested to know how successful this project is, as I'm always looking for reasons to convert users in my astronomy department from things like IDL on to python :-)

Cheers,

Tim Leslie

Cheers.
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