[SciPy-User] ANN: imageio v1.1

[Almar Klein]

> Working with pictures can be slow with Python so I would like to know if
> imageio is a fast, or a slow package, or a medium one ?

Imageio only reads and writes images. It does that pretty fast. E.g. 
png/jpg and other common formats are handled via the FreeImage library. 
Video via ffmpeg.

When reading an image it yields a numpy array. For processing the data, 
you need to use other tools, e.g. scikit-image.

- Almar



>
> *Christophe BAL*
> *Enseignant de mathématiques en Lycée **et développeur Python amateur*
> *---*
> *French math teacher in a "Lycée" **and **Python **amateur developer*
>
> 2015-02-05 10:29 GMT+01:00 Almar Klein <almar.klein at gmail.com
> <mailto:almar.klein at gmail.com>>:
>
>
>     > This looks nice. Is there some perfomance issue ?
>
>     How do you mean?
>
>     - Almar
>
>
>      >
>      >
>      > *Christophe BAL*
>      > *Enseignant de mathématiques en Lycée **et développeur Python
>     amateur*
>      > *---*
>      > *French math teacher in a "Lycée" **and **Python **amateur developer*
>     >
>     > 2015-02-05 9:34 GMT+01:00 Philipp A. <flying-sheep at web.de <mailto:flying-sheep at web.de>
>      > <mailto:flying-sheep at web.de <mailto:flying-sheep at web.de>>>:
>     >
>     >     this really fills a niche well. good job!
>     >
>      >     Almar Klein <almar.klein at gmail.com
>     <mailto:almar.klein at gmail.com> <mailto:almar.klein at gmail.com
>     <mailto:almar.klein at gmail.com>>>
>     >     schrieb am Wed Feb 04 2015 at 15:43:47:
>     >
>     >         Imageio is a Python library that provides an easy interface to
>     >         read and
>     >         write a wide range of image data, including animated images. video,
>     >         volumetric data, and scientific formats. It is cross-platform,
>     >         runs on
>     >         Python 2.x and 3.x, and is easy to install.
>     >
>     >         More information:http://imageio.github.io/
>     >         Release notes:
>      > http://imageio.readthedocs.__org/en/latest/releasenotes.__html
>      >         <http://imageio.readthedocs.org/en/latest/releasenotes.html>
>      >
>      >         Regards,
>      >             Almar
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