[AstroPy] modifying FITS data

[Frédéric Grollier]

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 04:53:55PM +0200, Jean-Luc Menut wrote:
> Hello All,

[snip]

> What I would like to do is to replace these value by some others 
> (actually interpolated from other FITS data).
> 
> By example, if I try to do
> 
> In [80]: orig['OI_VIS'].data['VISAMP']=tuple(ones(14))
> 
> I obtain:
> ValueError: field named VISAMP not found.

Hello,

doing this with a loop should work:

for i in range(orig['OS_VIS'].data.shape[0]):
    orig['OI_VIS'].data.field('VISAMP')[i] = the_value


Fred.