ImportError: cannot import name 'imread' from 'scipy.misc'

Question

When trying to load an image file with scipy.misc.imread() , I receive this unexpected error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/ghita/PycharmProjects/image_processing/venv/test1.py", line 2, in <module>
    from scipy.misc import imread,  imsave
ImportError: cannot import name 'imread' from 'scipy.misc' (/home/ghita/PycharmProjects/image_processing/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/scipy/misc/__init__.py)

Why does this fail?

Answer 1

It looks like imread has been removed from scipy.misc . They now recommend that you use imread from the imageio package .