I am trying to read a png image in python. The imread function in scipy is being deprecated and they recommend using imageio library.

However, I am would rather restrict my usage of external libraries to scipy, numpy and matplotlib libraries. Thus, using imageio or scikit image is not a good option for me.

Are there any methods in python or scipy, numpy or matplotlib to read images, which are not being deprecated?

• python
• image
• scipy

With matplotlib you can use (as shown in the matplotlib documentation)

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.image as mpimg

img=mpimg.imread('image_name.png')

And plot the image if you want

imgplot = plt.imshow(img)

For the better answer, you can use these lines of code. Here is the example maybe help you :

image = cv2.imread('/home/pictures/1.jpg')
plt.imshow(image)
plt.show()

In imread() you can pass the directory .so you can also use str() and + to combine dynamic directories and fixed directory like this:

path = '/home/pictures/'
for i in range(2) :
    image = cv2.imread(str(path)+'1.jpg')
    plt.imshow(image)
    plt.show()

Both are the same.

You can also use Pillow like this:

from PIL import Image
image = Image.open("image_path.jpg")
image.show()

If you just want to read an image in Python using the specified libraries only, I will go with matplotlib

In matplotlib :

import matplotlib.image
read_img = matplotlib.image.imread('your_image.png')