nipy/nibabel — pull request #265 by matthew-brett (2014-11-02 07:23:26+00:00)
Title: MRG: add PARREC to top level load

Add ability to load PAR / REC file from top-level `nibabel.load`.

On the way, make load function allow upper case compressed extensions, and
refactor image class generic testing to allow case where it is difficult to
create image class in memory.