pyregion

Release:1.2
Date:August 18, 2016

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

Note

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

ds9 pyregion + matplotlib
_images/region_ds9.jpg _images/region_mpl.png

Documentation

Note

pyregion is rather slow, likely due to a inefficient parser. Any contribution will be welcome.