libtiff-0.4.2.tar.gz

================================= PyLibTiff - a Python tiff library ================================= :Authors: Pearu Peterson <pearu.peterson AT gmail DOT com> :Website: https://github.com/pearu/pylibtiff/ :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 https://github.com/pearu/pylibtiff.git pylibtiff-svn cd pylibtiff-svn/trunk 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: https://github.com/pearu/pylibtiff/issues Any comments and questions can be sent also to the authors. For developers ============== To make a release [you must be pearu], 1. Make sure the version numbers are correct and ISRELEASED=True in setup.py 2. Run python setup.py sdist upload -r pypi 3. Reset ISRELEASED to False and increase version numbers in setup.py, rerun setup.py (to update libtiff/version.py) and commit changes to development repository.