On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Tony Yu <tsyu80(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hmm, I don't think so. It looks like `skimage.io._plugins.plugin.call` looks
> in `skimage.io.plugin_store`. But `plugin_store` is populated by the first
> installed plugin in a list of preferred plugins. Whatever matches, takes
> over all io operations (more or less). If that plugin doesn't provide
> `imread_collection`, then that entry in `plugin_store` remains empty. (In
> other words, after accepting a plugin, there's no additional check
> afterwards to fill in the functions not provided by that plugin.)
That's not the way it should behave; we should fix it to transparently
fall back to whatever is available.
> Is there any reason why there's no default `imread_collection` which just
> passes arguments to `ImageCollection`?
No, that would probably make sense. And I think ImageCollection uses
the plugin version of imread.
Stéfan