How to check whether a jpeg image is color or gray scale using only Python stdlib

Question

I have to write a test case in python to check whether a jpg image is in color or grayscale. Can anyone please let me know if there is any way to do it with out installing e

Answer 1

Can be done as follow:

from scipy.misc import imread, imsave, imresize
image = imread(f_name)
if(len(image.shape)<3):
      print 'gray'
elif len(image.shape)==3:
      print 'Color(RGB)'
else:
      print 'others'