Display an image with Python

If you are using matplotlib and want to show the image in your interactive notebook, try the following:

%pylab inline
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.image as mpimg
img = mpimg.imread('your_image.png')
imgplot = plt.imshow(img)
plt.show()

If you use matplotlib, you need to show the image using plt.show() unless you are not in interactive mode. E.g.:

plt.figure()
plt.imshow(sample_image) 
plt.show()  # display it