2009/10/12 Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at googlemail.com>: > Also, what do you think about adding a dtype keyword to imread? I find it > useful to be able to get images as float for example so you don't have to > worry about division problems. That sounds like a useful addition. It should probably default to int8 or uint8 -- whatever is currently returned. Stéfan