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Last modified: December 2008

URL: http://cxc.harvard.edu/sherpa4.1/image_getregion.py.html
AHELP for Sherpa 4.1

image_getregion

Context: py.sherpa

Synopsis

Returns a region description from ds9.

Syntax

image_getregion()

Description

Returns a region description from the imager - by default, ds9. The image_getregion() function accepts no arguments and returns as a string a description of all regions drawn in the current frame.

Example

sherpa> reg = image_getregion()

A description of the current region is returned, and assigned to a variable.

Bugs

See the bugs pages on the Sherpa website for an up-to-date listing of known bugs.

Last modified: December 2008



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