@stefanv

On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 7:35 PM, Stéfan van der Walt <stefan@sun.ac.za> wrote:
Unfortunately, there's a trade-off between having things "just work"
and the amount of magic that happens behind the scene.  

I think you have the right approach, ie imread() should just work. However, what started this post is that it doesn't. =)