[AstroPy] Find record(s) with specific key in fits table

[Steffen Brinkmann]

Hello,

Currently, after a tedious hour of trying different things, I do the
following to extract records with a specific key from a fits table. In
this case the key name is 'OBJECT' and, say, I am looking for '18_Sco':

$ from astropy.io import fits
$ fits_data = fits.getdata("file.fits")
$ fits_data[list(fits_data['OBJECT']).index('18_Sco')]

The disadvantage is that only the first record with that 'OBJECT' key is
found.

This:
$ fits_data[list(fits_data['OBJECT']) == '18_Sco']

does not work. The output is a different record with another 'OBJECT'
name. No idea why...

I can use a list comprehension of the python built-in filter() but that
lasts minutes. The file has >10⁵ records.

There must be an elegant way to do this right! Right?

Thank you, cheers,

Steffen


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Steffen Brinkmann
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