How to show PIL Image in ipython notebook

Question

This is my code

from PIL import Image
pil_im = Image.open(\'data/empire.jpg\')

I would like to do some image manipulation on it, and then s

Answer 1

If you are using the pylab extension, you could convert the image to a numpy array and use matplotlib's imshow.

%pylab # only if not started with the --pylab option
imshow(array(pil_im))

EDIT: As mentioned in the comments, the pylab module is deprecated, so use the matplotlib magic instead and import the function explicitly:

%matplotlib
from matplotlib.pyplot import imshow 
imshow(array(pil_im))