read_fits_polygons¶
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pydl.pydlutils.mangle.
read_fits_polygons
(filename, convert=False)[source]¶ Read a “polygon” format FITS file.
This function returns a subclass of
FITS_rec
that provides some convenient aliases for the columns of a typical FITS polygon file (which might be all upper-case).Parameters: filename :
str
Name of FITS file to read.
convert :
bool
, optionalIf
True
, convert the data to a list ofManglePolygon
objects. Caution: This could result in some data being discarded!Returns: FITS_polygon
orlist
The data contained in HDU 1 of the FITS file.