bao_angular likelihood not working

[jorgefsoriano]

As distributed with v3.6, the bao_angular likelihood seems not to work, for two independent problems:

• First, in the __init__.py file, the function is called bao_boss instead of bao_angular.
• Second, in the data file bao_angular.txt, the first column is supposed to represent the catalog the data comes from. When the likelihood function is reading the data, in a string like SDSS DR7 0.235 9.06 0.23 8, the first word is taken as SDSS, and the the string DR7 is attempted to save as the redshift. It can be solved by rewriting SDSS-DR7.

[brinckmann]

Hi Jorge,

Thank you for the bug report and for including a solution. I'm surprised the first was never noticed, as that means it would have never run, oops! The second issue seems to be down to how the likelihood splits the data when reading it. Your solution would work, but I'm thinking instead to edit line 27 of __init__.py to split on tabs instead of leaving it undeclared (I wonder if default behavior changed with some python version?), i.e. instead of
this_line = line.split()
I'll change it to

line = line.strip('\n')
this_line = line.split(sep='\t')

That seems to work (stripping the next line also seemed to be missing, which I expect should be there). This solution leaves the data file unchanged, preserving the time stamp of when it was last edited, which I think is beneficial.

Best,
Thejs

[jorgefsoriano]

Hi Thejs,

Happy to help. Big fan.

Best,
Jorge