Reading bmp files in Python

Question

Is there a way to read in a bmp file in Python that does not involve using PIL? PIL doesn\'t work with version 3, which is the one I have. I tried to use the Image object from g

Answer 1

It depends what you are trying to achieve and on which platform?

Anyway using a C library to load BMP may work e.g. http://code.google.com/p/libbmp/ or http://freeimage.sourceforge.net/, and C libraries can be easily called from python e.g. using ctypes or wrapping it as a python module.

or you can compile this version of PIL https://github.com/sloonz/pil-py3k