[AstroPy] astropy.io.fits

[Paul Kuin]

Well, I did work around it, NP. It would be good to have that done some
time.  I was creating an ascii table from the FITS version and for
consistency I changed all the NaN and -2147483648 to blanks. It was one
shot thing. Keep up the good work!

Cheers,

    Paul

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 2:00 PM, Erik Bray <embray at stsci.edu> wrote:

> On 11/26/2015 04:28 PM, Paul Kuin wrote:
>
>> I was reading in a fits binary table.
>>
>> Some fields have defined TNULL??=-2147483648, while TFORM?? = 'J       '
>>
>> If I display the variable, it shows -2147483648, while it should be set
>> to Nan,
>> or blank, I think.
>>
>> Is that a bug or a feature?
>>
>
> Looks to be a bug, more or less.  I only recently implemented working(?)
> support for the BLANK keyword in image arrays [1].  Proper support for
> TNULL would involve applying the same work to table columns, which should
> be straightforward.  I think just nobody's ever asked.
>
> Erik
>
>
> [1] https://github.com/astropy/astropy/pull/3865
>
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