casa6

from casatasks import listobs

import casatools

import sys

import os

import argparse

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def get_observation_name(data):

    listobs(vis=data, listfile="getTelescope.out")

    # check for the Telescope used here

    with open ("getTelescope.out", "r") as fout:

        for line in fout:

            if "Observation:" in line:

                print("--------")

                print(line)

                print("Dataset: ", data)

                print("--------")

​

    os.remove("getTelescope.out")

​

if __name__ == "__main__":

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    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()

    parser.add_argument("-i", "--input", help='name of input table to read', required=True)

​

    args, unknownArgs = parser.parse_known_args()

    print(args)

    input_table = ''

    if args.input is not None:

        input_table = args.input

    else:

        print('Please provide the name of a dataset')

        sys.exit()

​

    try:

        get_observation_name(input_table)

    except:

        print('Cannot get the name of Observatory')

        traceback.print_exc()