AttributeError: 'module' object (scipy) has no attribute 'misc'

Question

I updated from ubuntu 12.04 to ubuntu 12.10 and the python module I have written suddenly no longer works with the error message that the module scipy does not have the attr

Answer 1

Because you cannot directly use the misc module from scipy without explicitly import it. Here is the way of loading scipy.misc:

import scipy.misc

#Load the Lena image into an array, (yes scipy does have a lena function)
lena = scipy.misc.lena()
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