How can I display an image from a file in Jupyter Notebook?

Question

I would like to use an IPython notebook as a way to interactively analyze some genome charts I am making with Biopython\'s GenomeDiagram module. While there is extensive doc

Answer 1

This will import and display a .jpg image in Jupyter (tested with Python 2.7 in Anaconda environment)

from IPython.display import display
from PIL import Image


path="/path/to/image.jpg"
display(Image.open(path))

You may need to install PIL

in Anaconda this is done by typing

conda install pillow