Tiff Image Reader/writer

[Robert Kern]

PyPK wrote:
> One reason why I don't want to use PIL is it seems very slow for tiff
> images of very large sizes(2400x4800). So I am looking for a better
> tool than does the right job faster.

This isn't fast enough?

In [8]: %time img2 = Image.open('foo.tiff')
CPU times: user 0.00 s, sys: 0.01 s, total: 0.01 s
Wall time: 0.03

In [9]: img2.size
Out[9]: (2400, 4800)

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