[Image-SIG] read image into an array

[Fredrik Lundh]

a long time ago, Marcin Szkudlarek wrote:

> Is there a faster way to do it? For example using getdata() method of Image
> class?  And later how I can convert above array into Image without using slow
> putpixel method?

this article might help:

    http://effbot.org/zone/pil-numpy.htm

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