RFR: IO cleanup

[Stéfan van der Walt]

On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Chris Colbert <sccolbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> oh, and int16 is useful when doing derivative filtering on uint8 images, but
> could as well be int32.

What is the current status of templating in Cython?  It's awkward
making the precision/memory trade-off on behalf of the user.  But it's
still better than not having algorithms :)

Cheers
Stéfan