Exceptions and Utility Classes

Exceptions

VerifyError

class pyfits.core.VerifyError

Bases: exceptions.Exception

Verify exception class.

Utility Classes

Delayed

class pyfits.core.Delayed(hdu=None, field=None)

Bases: object

Delayed file-reading data.

Undefined

class pyfits.core.Undefined

Undefined value.

ErrorURLopener

class pyfits.core.ErrorURLopener(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: urllib.FancyURLopener

A class to use with urlretrieve to allow IOError exceptions to be raised when a file specified by a URL cannot be accessed.

http_error_default(url, fp, errcode, errmsg, headers)