Tiff Image Reader/writer

[Robert Kern]

Robert Kern wrote:
> Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote:

>>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

And for comparison:

In [2]: f = open('foo.tiff')

In [3]: %time s = f.read()
CPU times: user 0.04 s, sys: 0.28 s, total: 0.32 s
Wall time: 2.40

Of course, it's all a moot point since the OP actually has a different 
problem with PIL, not its speed.

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Robert Kern
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