imutils.imlist openCV Python

Question

I am currently using OPENCV 3.1 version

I am facing error in using imutils.imlist(dir) error AttributeError: module 'imutils' has no attribute 'imlist'

please suggest some other attribute which can be used instead of imlist or tell what imlist does exaclty

Answer 1

If you follow the blog post completely, you will realize that the blogger wasn't using the pip package imutils. He was using his own custom file which he imported and the name of the custom file is imutils, which is present on github .

As of 19 March, 2017, the function you are looking for is:

def imlist(path):
    """
    The function imlist returns all the names of the files in 
    the directory path supplied as argument to the function.
    """
    return [os.path.join(path, f) for f in os.listdir(path)]

That being said, IIUC, this function assumes that all files inside the given directory are images. Instead of that, the imutils package which you are using, has a function of it's own, called list_images which provides similar functionality (it's recursive). You can use it like this:

from imutils import paths

list(paths.list_images('/path/to/dir/containing/images'))