Move the tifffile wrapper to tiff plugin

skimage/io/_plugins/pil_plugin.py

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ from six import string_types
 from PIL import Image
 
 from ...util import img_as_ubyte, img_as_uint
-from ...external.tifffile import TiffFile, imsave as tif_imsave
+from .tifffile import imread as tif_imread, imsave as tif_imsave
 
 
 def imread(fname, dtype=None, img_num=None, **kwargs):
@@ -41,9 +41,7 @@ def imread(fname, dtype=None, img_num=None, **kwargs):
     if hasattr(fname, 'lower') and dtype is None:
         kwargs.setdefault('key', img_num)
         if fname.lower().endswith(('.tiff', '.tif')):
-            with open(fname, 'rb') as f:
-                tif = TiffFile(f)
-                return tif.asarray(**kwargs)
+            return tif_imread(fname, **kwargs)
 
     if isinstance(fname, string_types):
         with open(fname, 'rb') as f:

skimage/io/_plugins/tifffile_plugin.py

@@ -1 +1,28 @@
-from ...external.tifffile import imread, imsave
+from ...external.tifffile import TiffFile, imsave
+
+
+def imread(fname, dtype=None, **kwargs):
+    """Load a tiff image from file.
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    fname : str or file
+       File name or file-like-object.
+    dtype : numpy dtype object or string specifier
+       Specifies data type of array elements (Not currently used).
+    kwargs : keyword pairs, optional
+        Addition keyword arguments to pass through (see `tifffile`'s `imread` function).
+
+    Notes
+    -----
+    Provided by Christophe Golhke's tifffile.py [1]_, and supports many
+    advanced image types including multi-page and floating point.
+
+    References
+    ----------
+    .. [1] http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/code/tifffile.py
+
+    """
+    with open(fname, 'rb') as f:
+        tif = TiffFile(f)
+        return tif.asarray(**kwargs)