CASA Tips

# This is for compiling a simple program which depends on casacore but is not
# part of it: make_casacore_app your_program.cc
make_casacore_app() {
    declare -a includes
    declare -a libs
    for i in images casa fits components coordinates lattices measures ms \
        msfits scimath tables; do
        includes+="-I$CASAROOT/casacore/$i"
        libs+="-lcasa_$i"
    done
    g++ ${includes[@]} -I. -I/usr/include/cfitsio -o ${1:r} $1 \
        -L$CASAARCH/lib ${libs[@]} -lcasa_measures_f -lcasa_scimath_f \
        -lcfitsio -lcasa_mirlib -lwcs -llapack -lblas -lcfitsio -ldl
}

colors Linux

It's a bit garish, but it displays ?'s output better than the default casapy color scheme if you like white text on a dark background.

Edit, and then save as ipy_user_conf.py in ~/.ipython/ and/or ~/.ipython_casa/. Notes:

• casapy does some customization of ipython itself, like autobracketing and the color scheme.
• Most of this file came from other sample ipython customization files on the web. The unique, CASA-specific magic here is "whelp", for quickly getting documentation on tools and their components.
• I can't get 'colors Linux' to work for casapy from this file, but it does work if typed in once casapy is running.

casalog.version()

The almasimmos wiki.

A wiki page that needs to be split up, but it discusses import, reload, sys.path, and pychecker.

An old almasimmos page.