__all__ = ['imread', 'imsave'] from tifffile import imwrite as imsave, imread as tifffile_imread def imread(fname, **kwargs): """Load a tiff image from file. Parameters ---------- fname : str or file File name or file-like-object. kwargs : keyword pairs, optional Additional keyword arguments to pass through (see ``tifffile``'s ``imread`` function). Notes ----- Provided by the tifffile library [1]_, and supports many advanced image types including multi-page and floating point. References ---------- .. [1] https://pypi.org/project/tifffile/ """ if 'img_num' in kwargs: kwargs['key'] = kwargs.pop('img_num') return tifffile_imread(fname, **kwargs)