python parser for ds9 region files


Keywords
astronomy, astropy, python, regions
License
MIT
Install
pip install pyregion==1.1

Documentation

pyregion

pyregion is a python module to parse ds9 region files. It also supports ciao region files.

Installation: pip install pyregion

Lead developer: Jae-Joon Lee ([@leejjoon](http://github.com/leejjoon))

FEATURES

  • ds9 and ciao region files.
  • (physical, wcs) coordinate conversion to the image coordinate.
  • convert regions to matplotlib patches.
  • convert regions to spatial filter (i.e., generate mask images)

LICENSE

All files are under MIT License. See LICENSE.

Status

https://travis-ci.org/astropy/pyregion.svg?branch=master https://coveralls.io/repos/astropy/pyregion/badge.svg?branch=master

New regions package

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