<dt><b><a href="http://pyrap.googlecode.com/">Pyrap</a></b></dt>

<dd>

<p><a href="diepen@astron.nl"

>Ger van Diepen</a> writes:</p>

<blockquote>

<p>Pyrap is the python interface to the Radio-Astronomical Package

casacore (<a href="http://casacore.googlecode.com/"

>casacore.googlecode.com</a>). Astronomers love pyrap because

it makes it easily possible to get their data (observed with

radio-astronomical telescopes like LOFAR, ASKAP, and eVLA) in numpy

arrays and do basic data inspection and manipulation using the many

python packages that are available.</p>

<p>Boost.Python made it quite easily possible to create converters for

the various data types, also for numpy arrays and individual elements

of a numpy array. It's nice they work fully recursively. Mapping C++

functions to Python was straightforward.</p>

</blockquote>

</dd>