================================= PyLibTiff - a Python tiff library

:Authors:

Pearu Peterson

:Website:

http://pylibtiff.googlecode.com/

:License:

New BSD License

History

• Started numpy.memmap wrapper of tiff files in April 2010.
• Project published on April 22, 2009.

Download

The latest release can be downloaded from pylibtiff website.

The latest development code is available via SVN. To check it out, run::

svn checkout http://pylibtiff.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ pylibtiff-svn cd pylibtiff-svn

Installation

To use pylibtiff, the following is required:

• Python 2.5 or newer
• libtiff library
• nose for running pylibtiff tests

To install pylibtiff, unpack the archive file, change to the pylibtiff source directory pylibtiff-?.?* (that contains setup.py file and pylibtiff module), and run::

python setup.py install

Testing

To test pure Python pylibtiff from source directory, run::

nosetests libtiff/tests/

Basic usage

Import pylibtiff with

from libtiff import *

that will provide a class TIFF to hold a tiff file:

tiff = TIFF.open('filename') image = tiff.read_image()

The TIFF class provides ctypes based wrapper to the C libtiff library.

Additional documentation is available online in Pylibtiff website.

Help and bug reports

You can report bugs at the pylibtiff issue tracker:

http://code.google.com/p/pylibtiff/issues/list

Any comments and questions can be sent also to the authors.