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# scipy.misc.imshow

`scipy.misc.``imshow`(arr)

  Simple showing of an image through an external viewer.

  Uses the image viewer specified by the environment variable SCIPY_PIL_IMAGE_VIEWER, or if that is not defined then see, to view a temporary file generated from array data.

  Parameters : | arr : ndarray Array of image data to show.
  Returns : | None :

  Examples

      >>> a = np.tile(np.arange(255), (255,1))
      >>> from scipy import misc
      >>> misc.pilutil.imshow(a)

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