Getting error - 'could not find a writer'while giving imshow, imwrite command opencv

Question

I am a beginner at opencv and python. I have just installed opencv2.4.9 and enthought canopy-32bit. I am getting error for the following:

import cv2
image =          


        

Answer 1

I could solve this problem by simply adding the extension '.jpg' etc at the end of the image and it worked for me!