Prroblem with running ezCon.py

Stephen Arbogast

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Mar 23, 2025, 7:27:59 PM3/23/25

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Is this a version mismatch?

Getting this error message..... from astropy.....

========== not locBase =======================
"raH" line input to dataAzimuthDeg = 329.5678550679712
dataElevationDeg = 1.8540843031345604
dataAzimuthDeg = 329.5678550679712
dataElevationDeg = 1.8540843031345604
file = 0 of 1 in dir 1 of 1 = .\data\Durango250322_12.txt samplesRead= 1,175 fileRawLen= 1,175 rawLen= 1,175 antL file = 0 of 1 in dir 1 of 1 = .\data\Durango250322_12.txt
dataAzimuthDeg = 180.0
dataElevationDeg = 45.0
file = 0 of 1 in dir 1 of 1 = .\data\Durango250322_12.txtantLen ?= 1,176
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\sarbo\ezRABase\ezRA\ezCon.py", line 11698, in <module>
main()
~~~~^^
File "C:\Users\sarbo\ezRABase\ezRA\ezCon.py", line 11330, in main
readDataDir() # creates ezRAObsLat, ezRAObsLon, ezRAObsAmsl, ezRAObsName
~~~~~~~~~~~^^
File "C:\Users\sarbo\ezRABase\ezRA\ezCon.py", line 1953, in readDataDir
if not locBase:
^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\sarbo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\astropy\units\quantity.py", line 1318, in __bool__
raise ValueError(
...<2 lines>...
)
ValueError: EarthLocation truthiness is ambiguous, especially for logarithmic units and temperatures. Use explicit comparisons.

tedcl...@gmail.com

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Mar 23, 2025, 8:53:49 PM3/23/25

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Wow, lots of unhappy text there.

It may be that Python 3.13 or a new Astropy that does not like my use of a "0." value locBase as a flag for locBase not calculated yet.

I will now email you to ask for your

Durango250322_12.txt

data file.

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Ted Cline
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On Sunday, March 23, 2025 at 5:27:59 PM UTC-6 Stephen Arbogast wrote:

Is this a version mismatch?
Getting this error message..... from astropy.....

...

Stephen Arbogast

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Mar 23, 2025, 9:54:28 PM3/23/25

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Durango250322_12.zip

tedcl...@gmail.com

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Mar 27, 2025, 3:24:31 PM3/27/25

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I think the new version of ezCon.py,

ezCon250323a.py

posted on Mar-24-2025, fixes this "ValueError: EarthLocation truthiness is ambiguous" error that Stephen found.

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