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 graphics.py, Image(anchorPoint, filename), but that only seems to work with gif files.

Answer 1

In Python it can simply be read as:

import os
from scipy import misc
path = 'your_file_path'
image= misc.imread(os.path.join(path,'image.bmp'), flatten= 0)

## flatten=0 if image is required as it is 
## flatten=1 to flatten the color layers into a single gray-scale layer