Description of problem:

The version of pyfits included in FC11 is not compatible with Python 2.6

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

1.3

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Run the following Python script:

import pyfits
import warnings

warnings.warn("TEST")
  
Actual results:

> python test.py
test.py:4: DeprecationWarning: functions overriding warnings.showwarning() must support the 'line' argument
  warnings.warn("TEST")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test.py", line 4, in <module>
    warnings.warn("TEST")
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pyfits/NP_pyfits.py", line 75, in showwarning
    _showwarning(message, category, filename, lineno, file)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/warnings.py", line 29, in _show_warning
    file.write(formatwarning(message, category, filename, lineno, line))
TypeError: formatwarning() takes exactly 4 arguments (5 given)


Expected results:

> python test.py
TEST

Additional info:

This bug was fixed upstream in pyfits version 2.1.  See the CHANGELOG here:

http://www.stsci.edu/resources/software_hardware/pyfits/release

See this scipy mailing list thread:

http://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/astropy/2009-June/000827.html