2011/12/13 Stéfan van der Walt <stefan@sun.ac.za>:

I am glad you showed me this example, because it also pointed out a problem with paletted image reading in PIL.  I'm seriously considering just making matplotlib our default backend (except that they also have a PNG reading bug in older versions where images are flipped upside down!).

Having fought this fight far too many times, I'm beginning to think there's a need for a simple, small, and fast python module wrapping libtiff, libpng, and libjpeg and talking to numpy. This would handle 90% or more of everyone's needs and would hopefully be simpler to install and use than PIL (and would have a faster development cycle). Ray Jones