stupid question: Why is imshow in io module?

Michael Aye kmichael.aye at gmail.com
Mon Nov 25 17:53:28 EST 2013



On Monday, November 25, 2013 2:29:26 PM UTC-8, Thomas A Caswell wrote:
>
> I would argue that showing an image is the 'out' part of I/O. 
>

I see your point. It is certainly 'some' kind of output, although I'm used 
to have the output part more dealing with a file than with a display of it, 
but YMMV.
Never mind, carry on. ;)

 

>
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Michael Aye <kmicha... at gmail.com<javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
> > I just stumbled over the 3 lines of code on scikits' title page: 
> > 
> > 
> > from skimage import data, io, filter 
> > image = data.coins() # or any NumPy array! 
> > edges = filter.sobel(image) 
> > io.imshow(edges) 
> > 
> > and wondered: Isn't it a bit funny to require an I/O module to show an 
> image 
> > that is already loaded? 
> > 
> > My apologies if that has been discussed before. 
> > 
> > Michael 
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