Importing pictures from module in Python

Question

Very stupid question, but here it goes.

Scikit-image has a module called 'data'. Such module has plenty of pictures that are used in the examples.

So, for instance:

from skimage import data image = data.camera() # camera being a camera.png file in data

Now, I want to import my own files into the scripts, but if I add a new file to the data folder, I get back the following error:

module data has no attribute 'whatever' #whatever being the new file I added to data.

data is a python module. You'd need to edit some Python code to make it work, unless it's doing something clever with attribute lookups, but I doubt it. — Open AI - Opting Out
– Open AI - Opting Out, Commented Dec 28, 2017 at 14:09
The documentation says you can use data.imread to read any image file, or data.load to load an image from the data directory. — Open AI - Opting Out
– Open AI - Opting Out, Commented Dec 28, 2017 at 14:12

Tonechas · Accepted Answer · 2017-12-28 23:32:01Z

As an alternative solution with respect to @Peter Wood's comment, skimage.io.imread should do the trick:

In [5]: from skimage import io In [6]: image = io.imread('whatever.png') In [7]: io.imshow(image) Out[7]: <matplotlib.image.AxesImage at 0xf695f98>

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