Installing ATpy
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  Prerequisites
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    ATpy requires NumPy to be installed:

      - numpy 1.3.0 or later
        http://numpy.scipy.org/
        (for masked array support, numpy 1.4.0 or svn is recommended)

    The following packages are optional, but are required to
    read/write to files of the relevant format:

      - pyfits 2.1 or later (for FITS tables)
        http://www.stsci.edu/resources/software_hardware/pyfits

      - vo 0.5 or later (for VO tables)
        https://www.stsci.edu/trac/ssb/astrolib/

      - asciitable 0.5.0 or later (for arbitrary ASCII tables)
        http://cxc.harvard.edu/contrib/asciitable/

      - h5py 1.3.0 or later (for HDF5 tables)
        http://code.google.com/p/h5py/

      - sqlite3 (for SQLite tables)
        built into Python 2.6

      - MySQL-python 1.2.2 or later (for MySQL tables)
        http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python

      - PyGreSQL 3.8.1 or later (for PostGreSQL tables)
        http://www.pygresql.org/

  Installation
  ============

    To install ATpy, simply run:

      python setup.py install
