# \[MNE help\] Getting electrode positions from	DigMontage

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hi,

i don't think we have a public function to do this but you can use:

m = mne.channels.make\_standard\_montage('biosemi32')  
m.\_get\_ch\_pos()

note that this is using a private function

Alex

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