[AstroPy] Capturing pyfits warnings

[Jim Vickroy]

Bridgman, William T. wrote:
> I tried using the Exceptions & Warning class
>
> try:
>      fimg=pyfits.open(dfile)
> except Warning as w:
>      print w.filename, w.message
> finally:
>      fimg.close()
>
> and it still doesn't grab it.  I get the warning:
>
> Warning: File may have been truncated: actual file length (2102784) is  
> smaller than the expected size (4213440)
>
> I've done limited work with the Exceptions class, and until now,  
> nothing with the Warnings class so I'm probably missing something.
>
> Tom
>   

Take a look at http://www.doughellmann.com/PyMOTW/warnings/ which 
discusses how to convert a warning to an exception.  -- jv

> On Sep 14, 2010, at 10:24 AM, Jim Vickroy wrote:
>
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>> Bridgman, William T. wrote:
>>
>> I'm trying to get an inventory of all the FITS files I'm storing
>> locally, to track down duplicates and determine data gaps in covering
>> certain phenomena.
>>
>> I'm getting a warning from pyfits about file size mismatches.  Is
>> there an elegant way to capture this message, or a warning code, that
>> I can save with the file inventory record for generating a summary
>> report?
>>
>> I see some items in the pyfits doc on capturing this with the warnings
>> module but it seems more focussed on logging.  It is unclear how I
>> would capture the warning information as a separate variable to save
>> with the inventory dictionary.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tom
>> --
>> Dr. William T."Tom" Bridgman               Scientific Visualization
>> Studio
>> Global Science & Technology, Inc.          NASA/Goddard Space Flight
>> Center
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>> Does this work for you?
>>
>>     
>>>>> import sys
>>>>> sys.version
>>>>>           
>> '2.6.4 (r264:75708, Oct 26 2009, 08:23:19) [MSC v.1500 32 bit  
>> (Intel)]'
>>     
>>>>> import pyfits
>>>>> pyfits.__version__
>>>>>           
>> '2.2.2'
>>     
>>>>> source =3D 'my.fit'
>>>>>
>>>>> try:
>>>>>           
>> ...     HDUs =3D pyfits.open(source)
>> ... except IOError as error:
>> ...    # do whatever you wish with the captured *error* ...
>> ...     print error.message
>> ...     print error.filename
>> ...     print error.errno
>> ...     print error.args
>> ...     print error.strerror
>> ... finally:
>> ...     HDUs.close()
>> ...
>> Header missing END card.
>> None
>> None
>> ('Header missing END c
>>     
>
> --
> Dr. William T."Tom" Bridgman               Scientific Visualization  
> Studio
> Global Science & Technology, Inc.          NASA/Goddard Space Flight  
> Center
> Email: William.T.Bridgman at nasa.gov         Code 610.3
> Phone: 301-286-1346                        Greenbelt, MD 20771
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