[Numpy-discussion] Images and numpy

[Robert Kern]

On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 01:08, Nadav Horesh <nadavh at visionsense.com> wrote:
> I encountered an exception: "nonstandard" format like 16 bits tiff I/O works only via the tostring/fromstring interface.

Yup. Internally, PIL doesn't necessarily represent the data in the
same way that numpy does, so you have to go through another interface
rather than the fast one.

-- 
Robert Kern

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though it had an underlying truth."
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