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

[Michael Hanke]

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 09:33:19AM -0700, Matthew Brett wrote:
> 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?

This is totally fine with me. I was just referring to the fact that the
currently get_header() returns something more complicated than a dict.
Above solution is totally fine with me.

> 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.

Nah, I'd say: SOLVED ;-)


Michael

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