[AstroPy] DATAMD5 calculation

[Ole Streicher]

Am 25.05.2011 00:10, schrieb Erik Bray:
> On 05/24/2011 05:51 PM, Ole Streicher wrote:
>> Am 24.05.2011 23:13, schrieb Erik Bray:
>>> I don't think pyfits has anything built in for handling MD5 sums.  Is
>>> there some particular standard this relates to, such that it would be a
>>> good feature to add?
>>
>> Maybe. At least, I know this from the ESO pipelines that they add a
>> DATAMD5 keyword to the primary header. And since this keyword is not
>> prefixed with "HIERARCH ESO", I guessed that it is some standard.
>> However, google dit not point me to more information.
> 
> I'll look into it...

It seems to come from the "qfits" package. There is a program "fitsmd5"
from this library which seems to compute it.
>
>>> At any rate, in the meantime you can use hashlib to generate a checksum
>>> on hdu.data--no need to use any internal attributes:
>>
>> This is unfortunately not compatible to the files I already have (from
>> an ESO pipeline).
> 
> Strange...  could it be that they're using the header plus the data for 
> the MD5 sum?

The code I found calcs for every HDU the data from hdu._datLoc to
hdu._datLoc + hdu._datSpan. Since hdu._datSpan is different from
hdu.data.nbytes (they differ by 832 bytes), the results must be different.

Unfortunately, I dont know the meaning of _datLoc and _datSpan with
respect to the data, so I dont know how to reconstruct the data without
a file.

Best

Ole