imageio progress

[Juan Nunez-Iglesias]

I wrote a lot of image io stuff for my own projects before I became aware
of skimage. I spent some time thinking about how people could add and
maintain their own modules, and came up with the following:

io/
    __init__.py
    tiff.py
        read()
        write()
    png.py
        read()
        write()

etc. This isn't coded, it was just on my todo. Adding new formats is then a
matter of dumping in a file containing read() and write() functions, and
importing that in the __init__.py file. This results in very clean syntax:

io.png.read()

There could also be io.read() and io.write() defined in __init__ or some
generic name, e.g. io.auto.read(), that would call the right format based
on filename.

Thoughts?


On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 10:47 PM, Stéfan van der Walt <stefan at sun.ac.za>wrote:

> Hi Almar
>
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Almar Klein <almar.klein at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > The project is called imageio and it is now a plugin-based library with a
> > relatively small core. The freeimage plugin that started it all currently
> > provides most file formats. Its now at a stage where I think the core is
> > pretty much finished, and focus can shift towards different plugins for
> > various scientific formats. But I am not going to do that alone :)
>
> Is there a way to add plugins by simply "dumping" plugin files into
> place?  This was part of the thinking when we designed the skimage.io
> plugin infrastructure (so it would be easy for, e.g., Debian to add
> new formats by simply unpacking into the right location).
>
> I am not entirely happy with the complexity of the io module in
> skimage, and would love to hear ideas about how it can be simplified,
> perhaps integrating with imageio.
>
> Stéfan
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