RE: [matplotlib-devel] image module questions

[Perry G. <pe...@st...>]

>
> Hi Perry,
> You may not be aware that, although not officially supported, Lundh
> provided the following sample code (which I have used successfully to read
> bmp files and do fft's on them) for converting PIL to/from Numeric arrays
> via strings. It is quite fast. I think I probably found it in an email
> archive,
> Gary Ruben
>
Thanks for showing the code. I guess what I was referring to was
that native support by PIL would eliminate unnecessary memory copies
which occur when fromstring and tostring are used. But as I argue
in a previous message, I'm not currently worried that much about
that, but it seems that it would be nice if it weren't necessary
to go through that copying (from PIL image to string to array
rather than directly from PIL image to array)

[And I *meant* to check the spelling of Fredrik's name; I have a hard
time remembering the correct spelling :-) ]

Perry