[AstroPy] PyFITS Too many open files

[Nicholas Earl]

Sorry, but it seems I sent this back to only Nice Nell, and not the entire
list!

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Thanks for the reply. I was under the impression that the with command
automatically closed the file? Regardless, I went ahead and wrote the
script up like this

import pyfits

for filename in os.listdir(directory):
 kep_id = filename[4:13]
fits = pyfits.open(directory + "/" + filename, ignore_missing_end=True)
 time = fits[1].data["TIME"]
energy = fits[1].data["ENERGY"]
 fits.close()

Unfortunately, I get the same error.

Nicholas Earl
Graduate Research Assistant
San Diego State University


On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Nico Nell <nico.nell at gmail.com> wrote:

> You need to close the files once you have retrieved the data...
>
> See here:
> http://pythonhosted.org/pyfits/api_docs/api_hdulists.html#pyfits.HDUList.close
>
> ~Nick
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 10:51 PM, Nicholas Earl <nchlsearl at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I'm having an issue with opening and retrieving information for a large
>> amount of fits files. Mainly, I keep running into a mmap.error: [Errno
>> 24] Too many open files error. The code I'm using is:
>>
>> import pyfits
>>
>> for filename in os.listdir(directory):
>>  kep_id = filename[4:13]
>>
>> with pyfits.open(directory + "/" + filename, ignore_missing_end=True) as
>> fits:
>>  time = fits[1].data["TIME"]
>> energy = fits[1].data["ENERGY"]
>>
>> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!
>>
>> Nicholas Earl
>> Graduate Research Assistant
>> San Diego State University
>>
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