[Pkg-exppsy-pynifti] [Nipy-devel] Image, design, usecases

[Matthew Brett]

Hi,

Hmm - now - I worry we are starting to confuse interfaces and implementation.

Michael, I think you are saying that you want to be able to do this:

data, meta = load(filename)
assert isinstance(data, np.ndarray)
assert isinstance(meta, dict)

That's really easy with the current brifti code.  For example, I
believe the following will work:

def apparently_basic(filename):
   img = nifti.load(filename)
   meta = {}
   meta.update(img.get_header())
   meta['affine'] = img.get_affine()
   return img.get_data(), meta

That's what Thorsten was proposing, but I think that is not what you mean?

I do think we have to get the interfaces right, but I worry that we
might be discussing how to get there rather than where we want to go.

See you,

Matthew