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Diffstat (limited to 'wcsutil/__init__.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | wcsutil/__init__.py | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/wcsutil/__init__.py b/wcsutil/__init__.py index 40a3649..c43f86e 100644 --- a/wcsutil/__init__.py +++ b/wcsutil/__init__.py @@ -117,7 +117,15 @@ class HSTWCS(WCS): inst_kl = instruments.__dict__[inst_kl] insobj = inst_kl(prim_hdr, ext_hdr) for key in self.inst_kw: - self.__setattr__(key, insobj.__getattribute__(key)) + try: + self.__setattr__(key, insobj.__getattribute__(key)) + except AttributeError: + # Some of the instrument's attributes are recorded in the primary header and + # were already set, (e.g. 'DETECTOR'), the code below is a check for that case. + if not self.__getattribute__(key): + print '%s object has no attribute %s' % (insobj.__class__.__name__, key) + else: + raise else: raise KeyError, "Unsupported instrument - %s" %self.instrument |