SciPy Recipes

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As an example, lets install scikit-image, a package for image processing available at the site http://scikit-image.org:

To install scikit-image, first update conda and Anaconda by running the following two commands in your Terminal:

conda update condaconda update anaconda

Now, scikit-image can be installed by running the following command at the system prompt:

conda install scikit-image

After the installation is finished, use a text editor to create a file called skimage_test.py containing the following code:

from skimage import data, io, filtersimage = data.coins()edges = filters.sobel(image)io.imshow(edges)io.show()

This code first constructs an image object from one of the sample images contained in scikit-image, which ...