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authorhack <hack@stsci.edu>2015-12-17 17:19:02 -0500
committerhack <hack@stsci.edu>2015-12-17 17:19:02 -0500
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Docstring for user-interface to WFPC2 dgeo file conversion in updatewcs was updated to better describe the inputs and return values.
git-svn-id: http://svn.stsci.edu/svn/ssb/stsci_python/stwcs/trunk@47118 fe389314-cf27-0410-b35b-8c050e845b92
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diff --git a/lib/stwcs/updatewcs/wfpc2_dgeo.py b/lib/stwcs/updatewcs/wfpc2_dgeo.py
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--- a/lib/stwcs/updatewcs/wfpc2_dgeo.py
+++ b/lib/stwcs/updatewcs/wfpc2_dgeo.py
@@ -17,6 +17,23 @@ def update_wfpc2_d2geofile(filename, fhdu=None):
"""
Creates a D2IMFILE from the DGEOFILE for a WFPC2 image (input), and
modifies the header to reflect the new usage.
+
+ Parameters
+ ----------
+ filename: string
+ Name of WFPC2 file to be processed. This file will be updated
+ to delete any reference to a DGEOFILE and add a D2IMFILE to replace
+ that correction when running updatewcs.
+ fhdu: object
+ FITS object for WFPC2 image. If user has already opened the WFPC2
+ file, they can simply pass that FITS object in for direct processing.
+
+ Returns
+ -------
+ d2imfile: string
+ Name of D2IMFILE created from DGEOFILE. The D2IMFILE keyword in the
+ image header will be updated/added to point to this newly created file.
+
"""
close_fhdu = False