skimage.io.manage_plugins

Handle image reading, writing and plotting plugins.

To improve performance, plugins are only loaded as needed. As a result, there can be multiple states for a given plugin:

available: Defined in an *ini file located in skimage.io._plugins.

See also skimage.io.available_plugins.

partial definition: Specified in an *ini file, but not defined in the

corresponding plugin module. This will raise an error when loaded.

available but not on this system: Defined in skimage.io._plugins, but

a dependent library (e.g. Qt, PIL) is not available on your system. This will raise an error when loaded.

loaded: The real availability is determined when it's explicitly loaded,

either because it's one of the default plugins, or because it's loaded explicitly by the user.