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Astropy regions is an in-development package for region handling based on
Astropy (http://astropy-regions.readthedocs.io/en/latest/). It was already
discussed at PyAstro15 and PyAstro16 
(http://astropy-regions.readthedocs.io/en/latest/development.html#notes). The
motivation for the regions package was to merge the functionality from pyregion
(http://pyregion.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) and photutils apertures
(http://photutils.readthedocs.io/en/latest/photutils/aperture.html) into a 
single package and add more functionality.  We plan to propose the new regions
package for inclusion into the Astropy core as ⁠⁠'astropy.region'⁠⁠⁠⁠ in April 2017,
well in time for the Astropy 2.0 release. In my talk I
will present the functionality that is currently available
(http://astropy-regions.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started.html), with the
main goal of getting you to use astropy regions for your
projects/software packages.

I always assumed it would be astropy.regions (plural), not astropy.region as you write here.
The current package is also called regions (plural)

@joleroi @astrofrog - OK? Or do you prefer to propose astropy.region?