scipy misc module has no attribute imread

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I am trying to read an image with scipy  However it does not accept the scipy misc imread part  What could be the cause of this    gt  gt  gt  import scipy  gt  gt  gt  scipy misc  lt module  scipy misc  from  C  Python27 lib site-packages scipy misc   init   pyc  gt   gt  gt  gt  scipy misc imread  test tif   Traceback  most recent call last     File   lt pyshell 11 gt    line 1  in  lt module gt      scipy misc imread  test tif   AttributeError   module  object has no attribute  imread

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You need to install Pillow  formerly PIL   From the docs on scipy misc       Note that Pillow is not a dependency of SciPy but the image manipulation functions indicated in the list below are not available without it                 imread            After installing Pillow  I was able to access imread as follows   In  1   import scipy misc  In  2   scipy misc imread Out 2    lt function scipy misc pilutil imread gt

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You need the Python Imaging Library  PIL  but alas  the PIL project seems to have been abandoned  In particular  it hasn t been ported to Python 3  So if you want PIL functionality in Python 3  you ll do well do use Pillow  which is the semi-official fork of PIL and appears to be actively developed  Actually  if you need a modern PIL implementation at all I d recommend Pillow  It s as simple as pip install pillow  As it uses the same namespace as PIL it s essentially a drop-in replacement   How  semi-official  is this fork  you may ask  The About page of the Pillow docs say this      As more time passes since the last PIL release  the likelihood of a   new PIL release decreases  However  we   ve yet to hear an official    PIL   is dead    announcement  So if you still want to support PIL  please   report issues here first  then open corresponding Pillow tickets here       Please provide a link to the first ticket so we can track the issue s    upstream    However  the most recent PIL release on the official PIL site is dated November 15  2009  I think we can safely proclaim Pillow as the successor of PIL after  as of this writing  nearly eight years of no new releases  So even if you don t need Python 3 support  I suggest you eschew the ancient PIL 1 1 6 distribution available in PyPI and just install fresh  up-to-date  compatible Pillow

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imread is depreciated after version 1 2 0  So to solve this issue I had to install version 1 1 0   pip install scipy  1 1 0

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python -m pip install pillow   This worked for me

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As answered misc imread is deprecated in SciPy 1 0 0  and will be removed in 1 2 0  imageio is one option it will return object of type     lt class  imageio core util Image  gt    but instead of imageio  use cv2  import cv2 im   cv2 imread  astronaut png     im will be of type    lt class  numpy ndarray  gt   As numpy arrays are faster to compute

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Install the Pillow library by following commands   pip install pillow   Note  the selected answer has been outdated  See the docs of   SciPy     Note that Pillow  https   python-pillow org   is not a dependency of SciPy  but the image manipulation functions indicated in the list below are not available without it

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In case anyone encountering the same issue  please uninstall scipy and install scipy  1 1 0    pip uninstall scipy    pip install scipy  1 1 0

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The solution that work for me in python 3 6 is the following     py -m pip install Pillow

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The only way I could get the  png file I m working with in as uint8 was with OpenCv  cv2 imread file  actually returned numpy ndarray with dtype uint8

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I have all the packages required for the image extraction on jupyter notebook  but even then it shows me the same error   Error on Jupyter Notebook  Reading the above comments  I have installed the required packages  Please do tell if I have missed some packages   pip3 freeze   grep -i -E  pillow scipy scikit-image  Pillow  5 4 1 scikit-image  0 14 2  scipy  1 2 1

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imread is deprecated in SciPy 1 0 0  and will be removed in 1 2 0  Use imageio imread instead   import imageio im   imageio imread  astronaut png   im shape    im is a numpy array  512  512  3  imageio imwrite  imageio astronaut-gray jpg   im       0

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Imread uses PIL library  if the library is installed use    from scipy ndimage import imread   Source  http   docs scipy org doc scipy-0 17 0 reference generated scipy ndimage imread html

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For Python 3  it is best to use imread in matplotlib pyplot   from matplotlib pyplot import imread

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You need a python image library  PIL   but now PIL only is not enough  you d better install Pillow  This works well

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Running the following in a Jupyter Notebook  I had a similar error message   from skimage import data photo data   misc imread  C  Users ers jpg   type photo data     error  msg      D  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual   Studio Shared Anaconda3 64 lib site-packages ipykernel launcher py 3    DeprecationWarning  imread is deprecated  imread is deprecated in   SciPy 1 0 0  and will be removed in 1 2 0  Use imageio imread   instead    This is separate from the ipykernel package so we can avoid   doing imports until   And using the following I got it solved   import matplotlib pyplot photo data   matplotlib pyplot imread  C  Users ers jpg   type photo data

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