Reference/API

pyregion: a Python parser for ds9 region files

• Code : https://github.com/astropy/pyregion

• Docs : http://pyregion.readthedocs.io/

See also the in-development regions package at https://github.com/astropy/regions a new astronomy package for regions based on Astropy.

Functions

get_mask(region, hdu[, origin])	Get mask.
open(fname)	Open, read and parse DS9 region file.
parse(region_string)	Parse DS9 region string into a ShapeList.
test(**kwargs)	Run the tests for the package.

Classes

Shape(shape_name, shape_params)	Shape.
ShapeList(shape_list[, comment_list])	A list of Shape objects.