In [1]:
%matplotlib inline

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
#http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/ipython/ipython/blob/1.x/examples/notebooks/Part%203%20-%20Plotting%20with%20Matplotlib.ipynb

from IPython.display import Image, display

In [2]:
from scipy import misc

In [5]:
scihackday = misc.imread('../example_files/scihackday.png', flatten=True)
type(scihackday)


Out[5]:
numpy.ndarray

In [6]:
scihackday


Out[6]:
array(<PIL.PngImagePlugin.PngImageFile image mode=LA size=100x100 at 0x109B817E8>, dtype=object)

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scihackday