RadioAstronomySoftwareGroup/pyuvdata

Missing antennas error message

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#1,291 opened on May 19, 2023

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I've been running into this error in a script lately, and without having a REPL to attach to it's basically impossible to diagnose for me. I was thinking maybe we should list the antennas which are not in the antenna_numbers array

https://github.com/RadioAstronomySoftwareGroup/pyuvdata/blob/16031096b8559cf1d91768ccdff78ba5811ffa4b/pyuvdata/uvdata/uvdata.py#L3361-L3364

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Locate the error handling code block at lines 3361-3364 in pyuvdata/uvdata/uvdata.py and modify the error message to list the missing antennas from the antenna numbers array.
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python
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backendapi
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