Package Health Score

84 / 100

security
No known security issues
popularity
Recognized
maintenance
Healthy
community
Active

Popularity

Recognized

GitHub Stars: 255
Forks: 139
Contributors: 60

Direct Usage Popularity

Based on project statistics from the GitHub repository for the PyPI package photutils, we found that it has been starred 255 times.

Security

No known security issues

Security and license risk for latest version

Release Date: Oct 25, 2024
Direct Vulnerabilities: 0
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Indirect Vulnerabilities: 0
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All security vulnerabilities belong to production dependencies of direct and indirect packages.

License

BSD-3-Clause

Security Policy

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Maintenance

Healthy

Commit Frequency

Open Issues: 39
Open PR: 5
Last Release: 2 months ago
Last Commit: 9 days ago

Further analysis of the maintenance status of photutils based on released PyPI versions cadence, the repository activity, and other data points determined that its maintenance is Healthy.

We found that photutils demonstrates a positive version release cadence with at least one new version released in the past 3 months.

As a healthy sign for on-going project maintenance, we found that the GitHub repository had at least 1 pull request or issue interacted with by the community.

Community

Active

Readme: Yes
Contributing.md: Yes
Code of Conduct: Yes
Contributors: 60
Funding: Yes

With more than 10 contributors for the photutils repository, this is possibly a sign for a growing and inviting community.

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Package

Python Versions Compatibility: >=3.10

Age: 10 years
Latest Release: 2 months ago
Dependencies: 0 Direct
Versions: 33
Maintainers: 0
Wheels: Linux, macOS, Windows

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astropy / photutils / photutils / isophote / ellipse.py View on Github

def _iterative(self, sma, step, linear, geometry, sclip, nclip,
                   integrmode, conver, minit, maxit, fflag, maxgerr,
                   going_inwards=False):
        if sma > 0.:
            # iterative fitter
            sample = EllipseSample(self.image, sma, astep=step, sclip=sclip,
                                   nclip=nclip, linear_growth=linear,
                                   geometry=geometry, integrmode=integrmode)
            fitter = EllipseFitter(sample)
        else:
            # sma == 0 requires special handling
            sample = CentralEllipseSample(self.image, 0.0, geometry=geometry)
            fitter = CentralEllipseFitter(sample)

        isophote = fitter.fit(conver, minit, maxit, fflag, maxgerr,
                              going_inwards)

        return isophote

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Photutils

Photutils is an Astropy package for detection and photometry of astronomical sources.

Please see the online documentation for installation instructions and usage information.

Citing Photutils

If you use Photutils for a project that leads to a publication, whether directly or as a dependency of another package, please include the following acknowledgment:

This research made use of Photutils, an Astropy package for
detection and photometry of astronomical sources (Bradley et al.
).

where (Bradley et al. <YEAR>) is a citation to the Zenodo record of the Photutils version that was used. We also encourage citations in the main text wherever appropriate. Please see the CITATION file for details and an example BibTeX entry.

License

Photutils is licensed under a 3-clause BSD license. Please see the LICENSE file for details.

FAQs

What is photutils?

An Astropy package for source detection and photometry. Visit Snyk Advisor to see a full health score report for photutils, including popularity, security, maintenance & community analysis.

Is photutils popular?

The python package photutils receives a total of 18,796 weekly downloads. As such, photutils popularity was classified as a recognized. Visit the popularity section on Snyk Advisor to see the full health analysis.

Is photutils well maintained?

We found that photutils demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity. It has a community of 60 open source contributors collaborating on the project. See the full package health analysis to learn more about the package maintenance status.

Is photutils safe to use?

The python package photutils was scanned for known vulnerabilities and missing license, and no issues were found. Thus the package was deemed as safe to use. See the full health analysis review.

Last updated on 21 December-2024, at 22:48 (UTC).

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