Tiff Image Reader/writer

[Robert Kern]

Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote:
> In <mailman.396.1118698763.10512.python-list at python.org>, Robert Kern
> wrote:
> 
>>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)
> 
> It's fast enough to open the file and read the meta-data.  The OP wants to
> decode the actual pixels.

Okay.

In [12]: %time d = img.getdata()
CPU times: user 0.31 s, sys: 1.43 s, total: 1.73 s
Wall time: 6.19

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