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

[Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...>]

According to the PR you reference, the fix for this was merged back in Jan
2013, so that means that this fix is in version 1.2.x and up. Are you
saying that you still can't do imread(urllib.request.urlopen(url))?

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 8:54 PM, Ryan Nelson <rne...@gm...> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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