use_plugin(name, kind=None)

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.

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

See Also

available_plugins

List of available plugins

Examples

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

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>>> 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.

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