[AstroPy] Table join with fits tables (or something else)

[Erik Bray]

Hi Taro,

Is there some reason your data has to be in FITS tables?  The FITS 
format is not inherently well-suited for high-performance 
manipulation/analysis of large data sets.  You might want to look into 
PyTables.

Erik

On 12/02/2011 01:35 PM, Taro Sato wrote:
> Hi there.  Sorry for a lazy question.. but is anyone here aware of any
> Python utility that makes it easy to do table join operations (as in
> SQL) with FITS tables?
>
> I'm primarily using PyFITS to store data now and wish to avoid
> substantial reconstruction of data structures just to accommodate such
> operations, but if that means moving on to a different package, I'd
> like to consider if the transition is worth it...
>
> Thank you for your time,
> Taro
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