read_fits_polygons¶
- 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
, optional If
True
, convert the data to a list ofManglePolygon
objects. Caution: This could result in some data being discarded!
- filename
- Returns:
FITS_polygon
orlist
The data contained in HDU 1 of the FITS file.