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Subject: Re: Imaging libraries in active development?
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:45:54 +0000
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On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 04:30:25 -0800, Alasdair McAndrew wrote:

> What I want to know is - what are the current "standard" libraries for
> image processing in Python which are in active development?

NumPy/SciPy.

PIL is fine for loading/saving image files (although if you're using a GUI
toolkit, that probably has its own equivalents). But for any non-trivial
processing, I normally end up using either NumPy or (if speed is an issue)
PyOpenGL/GLSL.