[Matplotlib-users] Best way to display image from URL in Python3

[Ryan N. <rne...@gm...>]

Hello all,

I'm porting over some code that used Py2.7 urllib2.urlopen(url) to grab
some image data from the net and load with pyplot.imread. It doesn't work
quite right in Py3.4. I found a couple of refs:

https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/1650
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15183170/python-crash-when-downloading-image-as-numpy-array

They suggest io.BytesIO(urllib.request.urlopen(url).read()) as a
replacement for Py3. Is this the best practice? Does anyone know a simpler
way to do this?

Ryan