Using a nested array should waste a lot of memory. I think you should use PIL to load and read the image.
> > I want to read the data from that gif file taking the red data (excluding the green and blue data) and store that in an array called Image[][] which is a nested array length 1024 with a list in each item of 1024 length (ie 1024 x 1024) >
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