PyFits for Windows?

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On Mar 29, 9:39 am, "W. eWatson" <notval... at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> John Yeung wrote:
> > On Mar 28, 4:03 pm, Michiel Overtoom <mot... at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> >> W. eWatson wrote:
> >>> It looks like PyFits downloads are for Linux.
> >>> Isn't there anything available for Win (xp)?
> >> To install it, unpack the tar file and
> >> type: python setup.py install"
>
> >> It looks like PyFits is platform-independent.
>
> > Perhaps the original poster is referring to the tar file, which isn't
> > natively supported by Windows and possibly isn't understood by WinZip
> > either (not sure about that one).  I recommend downloading and
> > installing 7-Zip, which is free and handles more formats.  It will let
> > you extract the contents, which you can then install normally with the
> > setup script as shown above.
>
> > John
>
> Yes, I keep getting to a tar file with Google and just going to the STSci
> site. I use IZarc. Maybe it handles tar files. I'll give it a try.
>
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A windows tar can be found at:
 http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gtar.htm

(personally, I use cygwin)