imgarray

Save and load numpy arrays as PNG images


Keywords
numpy, png, pillow
License
BSD-3-Clause
Install
pip install imgarray==1.0

Documentation

imgarray (Python)

This saves 1D and 2D numpy arrays as png images.

Q: Why would you ever want that?

  • It's somewhat, though not extremely, space-efficient.
  • Saving and loading PNGs is supported by many languages, so all you need to do is port this library.
  • Results look kind of funny, nothing too interesting though.
  • Because you can.

Installation

This package requires numpy and pillow. They will be installed automatically if you install using pip:

pip install imgarray

Usage

Usage is very simple, there are only two functions:

from imgarray import save_array_img, load_array_img data = randn((500, 500)).astype(int16) save_array_img(data, path) data2 = load_array_img(path)

You can check out the tests for more (not a lot more to be fair).

Notes

  • 1D arrays will be returned as 2D arrays with one unit dimension, because all data
  • It works with most numpy data types (specifically, the ones that use a number of bytes which is a power of 2)
  • If you remove metadata from the PNG, the file only loads correctly if the data was float64, and you'll also get a warning.

Usage & contributions

Revised BSD License; at your own risk, you can mostly do whatever you want with this code, just don't use my name for promotion and do keep the license file.

Pull requests are welcome, especially with unit tests. Due to the great importance of this library, maintenance is not going to be high-priority.