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

Homepage : http://leejjoon.github.com/pyregion/

pyregion is "easy_install"able.

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyregion


FEATURES
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* 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
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All files (see exception below) are under MIT License. See LICENSE.

* "lib/kapteyn_celestial.py" is from the Kapteyn package
  (http://www.astro.rug.nl/software/kapteyn/). See
  LICENSE_kapteyn.txt.