astropy v1.0.1 Release Notes

Release Date: 2015-03-06 // about 9 years ago
  • ๐Ÿ› Bug Fixes

    astropy.constants

    • Ensure constants can be turned into Quantity safely. [#3537, #3538]

    astropy.io.ascii ^

    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix a segfault in the fast C parser when one of the column headers is empty [#3545].

    • ๐Ÿ›  Fixed support for reading inf and nan values with the fast reader in Windows. Also fixed in the case of using use_fast_converter=True with the fast reader. [#3525]

    • ๐Ÿ›  Fixed use of mmap in the fast reader on Windows. [#3525]

    • ๐Ÿ›  Fixed issue where commented header would treat comments defining the table (i.e. column headers) as purely information comments, leading to problems when trying to round-trip the table. [#3562]

    astropy.modeling ^

    • ๐Ÿ›  Fixed propagation of parameter constraints ('fixed', 'bounds', 'tied') between compound models and their components. There is may still be some difficulty defining 'tied' constraints properly for use with compound models, however. [#3481]

    astropy.nddata ^

    • โช Restore several properties to the compatibility class NDDataArray that were inadvertently omitted [#3466].

    astropy.time ^

    • Time objects now always evaluate to True, except when empty. [#3530]

    Miscellaneous

    • The ERFA wrappers are now written directly in the Python/C API rather than using Cython, for greater performance. [#3521]

    • ๐Ÿ‘Œ Improve import time of astropy [#3488].

    Other Changes and Additions

    • โšก๏ธ Updated bundled astropy-helpers version to v1.0.1 to address installation issues with some packages that depend on Astropy. [#3541]