graph in pyraf / remark on variable declarations

[fmeynadier]

Hello,

Due to a disk crash I had to reinstall iraf and pyraf. (my system is now Mandriva 2006. Proceeding as I used to, xgterm graphs won't display with pyraf. Error message :
--> splot spectre.fits
Traceback (innermost last):
File "<CL script CL1>", line 1, in ?
TypeError: list indices must be integers

I don't have any idea of what I have to fix... Graphs display well with cl/ecl.
So I suppose this concerns the pyraf team, but I was wondering if anybody had faced the same problem and could share the solution on this forum.

- besides, I found that CL scripts standards are more strict in v2.12.2a : if I am not mistaken, variables *must* be declared right after the "begin" statement. Some of my old (working !) scripts were c++/c99 style, with declarations in the middle of the script. This doesn't seem to work anymore. To my surprise, the cl gives the correct faulty line, whereas the ecl does not !

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Frédéric Meynadier

[fitz]

I can't help with the pyraf part of your question, you might try the STScI helpdesk (help@stsci.edu) if you don't get an answer here. First thing to try though is to unlearn the task, this may be a simple parameter translation problem.

You're right that the error line numbers are different in the cl vs. ecl, this is in part due to how internal CL errors are handled. However, declarations in the middle of a procedure have never been allowed and should be an error in all cases. The exception is perhaps when using redirection on scripts (e.g. "cl < foo.cl") versus procedure scripts. Can you post an example of one of these inline declarations that (used to) work?

Cheers,
-Mike

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