[AstroPy] Inheriting HDUList

[John ZuHone]

Hi Joe,

Have a look at this one:

https://bitbucket.org/yt_analysis/yt/src/6120c77c828f195f8691806fc724bb730fe90680/yt/utilities/fits_image.py?at=yt-3.0

Best,

John Z

On Feb 2, 2014, at 9:10 AM, Joe Philip Ninan <indiajoe at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> Is there any online example of how to create a new child object from HDUList of astropy.io.fits ?  (The object astropy.io.fits.open() returns).
> I want to create an object class which inherits everything from HDUList, and then add some additional functions.
> The part i cannot figure out is how to initialize the HDUList inside the new class.
> 
> class MyFitsObject(HDUList):
>     def __init__(self,filename):
>     # How do i initialise HDUList here, when all i have is the Fits File name?
> 
> -cheers
> joe
> 
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