I am looking for the way to manipulate SAXS detector's images as python-arrays. The equipment save the frames as "European data format" files. I couldn't open the images so far.
I use Fabio, initially a sub-package of the Fable project which can open pretty much any file format produced in the field of X-rays. It is really well maintained and updated. Most importantly, I find it very "pythonic", i.e. objectwise, you can easily obtain the header or data etc.
Check: http://pythonhosted.org/fabio/ and https://pypi.python.org/pypi/fabio/0.4.0