[SciPy-dev] moving imread

[Stefan van der Walt]

On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 10:40:42AM -0700, Sebastian Haase wrote:
> Hi,
> keep in mind that in 
> ndimage the emphasis in more on the *nd* part than in the *image* part.
> Meaning ndimage is (so far) concerned about any-dimensional "image"-algorithms 
> -- like segmentation or nd-erosion and so on.
> It is not at all about reading jpg-files.

It is the only image related toolbox in scipy.  It could go under
io as well -- anywhere more accessable/logical than

scipy.misc.pilutil.imread

will make me happy.

Cheers
Stéfan