imageio.v3.imopen

imageio.v3.imopen(uri, io_mode, *, plugin=None, extension=None, format_hint=None, legacy_mode=False, **kwargs)

Open an ImageResource.

Warning

This warning is for pypy users. If you are not using a context manager, remember to deconstruct the returned plugin to avoid leaking the file handle to an unclosed file.

Parameters

uristr or pathlib.Path or bytes or file or Request

The ImageResource to load the image from.

io_modestr

The mode in which the file is opened. Possible values are:

``r`` - open the file for reading
``w`` - open the file for writing

Depreciated since v2.9: A second character can be added to give the reader a hint on what the user expects. This will be ignored by new plugins and will only have an effect on legacy plugins. Possible values are:

``i`` for a single image,
``I`` for multiple images,
``v`` for a single volume,
``V`` for multiple volumes,
``?`` for don't care

pluginstr, Plugin, or None

The plugin to use. If set to None imopen will perform a search for a matching plugin. If not None, this takes priority over the provided format hint.

extensionstr

If not None, treat the provided ImageResource as if it had the given extension. This affects the order in which backends are considered, and when writing this may also influence the format used when encoding.

format_hintstr

Deprecated. Use extension instead.

legacy_modebool

If true use the v2 behavior when searching for a suitable plugin. This will ignore v3 plugins and will check plugin against known extensions if no plugin with the given name can be found.

**kwargsAny

Additional keyword arguments will be passed to the plugin upon construction.

Notes

Registered plugins are controlled via the known_plugins dict in imageio.config.

Passing a Request as the uri is only supported if legacy_mode is True. In this case io_mode is ignored.

Using the kwarg format_hint does not enforce the given format. It merely provides a hint to the selection process and plugin. The selection processes uses this hint for optimization; however, a plugin’s decision how to read a ImageResource will - typically - still be based on the content of the resource.

Examples

>>> import imageio.v3 as iio
>>> with iio.imopen("/path/to/image.png", "r") as file:
>>>     im = file.read()

>>> with iio.imopen("/path/to/output.jpg", "w") as file:
>>>     file.write(im)