Most efficient way to get pixelcolors of an image?

[Diez B. Roggisch]

defn noob schrieb:
> i want to process a large number of images and store their respective
> pixels in a matrix.
> 
> what is the mostt efficient way of opening and checking them?
> i doubt pygame is made for this purpose :)

Au contaraire, it is.

http://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/pixelarray.html

Diez