[AstroPy] Back to Python. Precession and PhysConst code.

Wayne Watson sierra_mtnview at sbcglobal.net
Wed Jan 25 14:45:38 EST 2012


Thanks, but it looks like your PyPI is in a tar file. I'm using Win7.  
RO 2.9.3 is a download.  I see some refs to Win, but I'm not sure what 
to make of them.

On 1/25/2012 9:34 AM, Russell Owen wrote:
> You have an incomplete package. Download RO from PyPI. The stuff you are looking for is in RO.Astro. euler is included in the package.
>
> -- Russell
>
> On Jan 24, 2012, at 8:29 PM, Wayne Watson wrote:
>
>> It's been quite awhile since I used python, but I was digging around on
>> PC for something on precession, and discovered some code for it,
>> prec.py.   Here are the first few lines.
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/env python
>> """
>> History:
>> P.T.Wallace   Starlink   10 July 1994
>> 2002-07-08 ROwen    Converted to Python.
>> 2007-04-24 ROwen    Converted from Numeric to numpy (in test code).
>> """
>> import RO.PhysConst
>> from euler import *
>> ...
>> ...
>>
>> It dies on RO.PhysConst when I run it.  Probably a further difficulty is
>> the euler reference.
>> I have the code for RO.PhysConst.py
>>
>> What needs to be done to successfully execute prec.py?
>>
>> -- 
>>             Wayne Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
>>
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            Wayne Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)

              (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
               Obz Site:  39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet

                      In 2904 there will be 5 solar eclipses.
                      On July 16, 2185 the longest solar
                      eclipse inf 5k years will occur, 7 min.

                     Web Page:<www.speckledwithstars.net/>





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