use-plugin

use_plugin

skimage.io.use_plugin(name, kind=None) [source]

Set the default plugin for a specified operation. The plugin will be loaded if it hasn’t been already.

Parameters:	name : str Name of plugin. kind : {‘imsave’, ‘imread’, ‘imshow’, ‘imread_collection’, ‘imshow_collection’}, optional Set the plugin for this function. By default, the plugin is set for all functions.

See also

available_plugins

List of available plugins

Examples

To use Matplotlib as the default image reader, you would write:

>>> from skimage import io
>>> io.use_plugin('matplotlib', 'imread')

To see a list of available plugins run io.available_plugins. Note that this lists plugins that are defined, but the full list may not be usable if your system does not have the required libraries installed.