My scipy.misc module appears to be missing imsave

Question

I open the python3 interpreter and type

import scipy.misc
scipy.misc.imsave

with the result

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'imsave'

Has the name changed? It works fine in python2 but I would rather not migrate backwards so to speak.

I have python 3.3.1 on Lubuntu 13.04 with all the modules downloaded from the default repositories. Scipy is installed and print(scipy.misc.__doc__) shows that imsave should be there.

EDIT:

scipy.__version__ gives 0.11.0

from scipy.misc import imsave gives

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: cannot import name imsave

what is `scipy.__version__` and what does `from scipy.misc import imsave` do? For that matter, what if you change `scipt.misc.imsave` to `scipy.misc.imsave`? — askewchan, Nov 15 '13 at 01:31
`scipy.misc.imsave` is from `pilutils` which depends on `PIL`. Do you have `PIL` installed? If so, it's probably worth upgrading `scipy`, which is at `0.13.0` now. Even if the upgrade isn't necessary, perhaps the re-installation is. — askewchan, Nov 15 '13 at 02:02
newer duplicate question/answer, but with references: https://stackoverflow.com/a/57253092 — michael, Jul 10 '20 at 03:05

score 61 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 04 '19 at 14:33

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scipy.misc.imsave has been deprecated in newer Scipy versions.

Change your code to:

import imageio
imageio.imwrite('filename.jpg', array)

answered Jun 04 '19 at 14:33

Ivona Tau

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score 16 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 26 '14 at 22:22

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Or pip install pillow in order to install a new PIL implementation. This works well in Python 3.4.

answered Oct 26 '14 at 22:22

Bohumir Zamecnik

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pillow needs some libraries as well, it won't necessarily work if you can't install OS packages. (--user) – Fábio Dias Oct 28 '16 at 20:27
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I pip installed pillow without errors on windows 10 for python 3.7 (in a virtual environment). I still get `'scipy.misc' has no attribute 'imsave'` – cowlinator Aug 06 '19 at 01:14

Warren Weckesser · Answer 3 · 2013-11-15T09:16:50.877

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Try installing the Ubuntu package python3-imaging. This packages provides PIL (the Python Imaging Library). PIL is required by imsave (and other im* functions in scipy.misc).

edited Nov 15 '13 at 09:16

answered Nov 15 '13 at 09:04

Warren Weckesser

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Thankyou, after askewchan's comment I was trying to find a package that would work happily with python3 but hadn't time to do a proper search. – Cramer Nov 15 '13 at 14:01
Package no longer exists? – BlueMoon93 Apr 12 '17 at 15:09
Try the package [`python-pil`](https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/yakkety/+package/python-pil). – Warren Weckesser Apr 12 '17 at 16:00

score 5 · Answer 4 · edited Jun 12 '19 at 14:09

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I had the same problem and the answers to this question didn't help. I solved it by installing a previous version of scipy:

pip3 install scipy==0.17.0

edited Jun 12 '19 at 14:09

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answered Jun 12 '19 at 13:10

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Doesn't work. 'Failed to build wheel for scipy.' – Sachin Apr 24 '22 at 10:40

My scipy.misc module appears to be missing imsave

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