On 04/25/2017 01:34 PM, Anne Archibald wrote:
I know they're not numpy-compatible, but FITS header values are
space-padded; does that occur elsewhere?
Strings in FITS headers are delimited by single quotes. Some keywords
(only a handful) are required to have values that are blank-padded (in
the FITS file) if the value is less than eight characters. Whether you
get trailing blanks when you read the header depends on the FITS
reader. I use astropy.io.fits to read/write FITS files, and that
interface strips trailing blanks from character strings:
TARGPROP= 'UNKNOWN ' / Proposer's name for the target
>>> fd = fits.open("test.fits")
>>> s = fd[0].header['targprop']
>>> len(s)
7
Phil
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