Extracting scripts from these tutorials

Hopefully the scripts contained in this cookbook are (a) useful and (b) work. They were however developed with CASA still a work in progress, and so scripts may break as commands, arguments, and keywords change. We developed this script extractor to allow us to easily extract scripts from these pages and run them. Feel free to try it!

Bad News

We started to use a syntax highlighter on these pages that makes things look very pretty but broke our script extractor. The following will act as a placeholder until we get the extractor running again!

How to Get the Script Extractor

Download the script extraction code.

# in bash
ftp ftp.eg.bucknell.edu
# log in anonymously with e-mail as password
cd pub/jgallimo
get extractCASAscript.py

How to Use the Script Extractor

Make your newly acquired python script executable.

# in bash
chmod u+x extractCASAscript.py

To run it, issue the python script name and give the URL as the argument. For example.

# in bash
extractCASAscript.py http://casaguides.nrao.edu/index.php?title=Example:_Calibrating_a_VLA_continuum_survey

This command will automatically generate a script called "Calibrating_a_VLA_Continuum_Survey.py."