Provided the library is pretty lightweight and easy to build, this might not be a bad idea at all... Zach On Sep 11, 2009, at 11:06 AM, Stéfan van der Walt wrote:

Hi all,

The OpenImageIO project will soon have Python bindings available. If we are willing to introduce their library as a dependency, we'll be able to load many image formats. I'd be quite happy to stick to a pure Python loader as well, but I don't know if such code exists.

http://openimageio.org/

Enjoy your weekend!

Cheers Stéfan