podi_striptables.py

#! /usr/bin/env python
#
# Copyright 2012-2013 Ralf Kotulla
#                     kotulla@uwm.edu
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import sys
import os
import astropy.io.fits as pyfits
import numpy
from podi_definitions import *

if __name__ == "__main__":

    for inputfile in sys.argv[1:]:
        
        hdulist = pyfits.open(inputfile)
        outlist = []

        for ext in hdulist:
            #print type(ext)
            if (is_image_extension(ext)):
                outlist.append(ext)

        print("writing",inputfile)
        hdu_out = pyfits.HDUList(outlist)
        hdu_out.writeto(inputfile+".notab.fits", overwrite=True)