bundles / astropy latest / astropy / io / fits / hdu / streaming / StreamingHDU

class

`astropy.io.fits.hdu.streaming:StreamingHDU`

source: /astropy/io/fits/hdu/streaming.py :15

Signature

class StreamingHDU ( name , header )

Members

Summary

A class that provides the capability to stream data to a FITS file instead of requiring data to all be written at once.

Extended Summary

The following pseudocode illustrates its use

header = astropy.io.fits.Header()

for all the cards you need in the header:
    header[key] = (value, comment)

shdu = astropy.io.fits.StreamingHDU('filename.fits', header)

for each piece of data:
    shdu.write(data)

shdu.close()

Aliases

astropy.io.fits.StreamingHDU