Fixing image loading in Python: imread

[Luis Pedro Coelho]

Hi,

I finally got a bit fed up with the state of reading & writing images in 
Python/numpy and started a new project:

imread
https://github.com/luispedro/imread

I want it to be simple: No image processing at all, just getting the bytes out 
of image files and into image files.

This way it has a better chance of being very stable and getting 
into linux distros and stuff like that. Once it matures a bit, I will use it in 
mahotas and I will submit a patch to scikits.learn.

It currently has two functions

imread : filename -> numpy array
    : reads a file
imsave: filename & numpy array
    : writes a file

I can imaging adding another pair to read&write to an in-memory buffer and 
perhaps a way to guess fileformats and retrieve metadata. But, again, there 
will be exactly zero image processing functions. That's for other packages to 
worry about.

It only supports PNG at the moment (using libpng) and JPEG (through libjpeg).  
It needs better error checking, of course. It should be boring and solid. With 
TIFF, I will call it "1.0" as it will cover most use cases.

What do you guys think?
-- 
Luis Pedro Coelho | University of Lisbon | http://luispedro.org
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