scipy.misc module has no attribute imread?
Question: I am trying to read an image with scipy. However it does not accept the
`scipy.misc.imread` part. What could be the cause of this?

    
    
    >>> import scipy
    >>> scipy.misc
    <module 'scipy.misc' from 'C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\scipy\misc\__init__.pyc'>
    >>> scipy.misc.imread('test.tif')
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<pyshell#11>", line 1, in <module>
        scipy.misc.imread('test.tif')
    AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'imread'
    


Answer: You need to install [PIL](http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/). From [the
docs](http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/misc.html) on `scipy.misc`:

> Note that the Python Imaging Library (PIL) is not a dependency of SciPy and
> therefore the pilutil module is not available on systems that don’t have PIL
> installed.

After installing PIL, I was able to access `imread` as follows:

    
    
    In [1]: import scipy.misc
    
    In [2]: scipy.misc.imread
    Out[2]: <function scipy.misc.pilutil.imread>
    

