stupid question: Why is imshow in io module?

[Thomas A Caswell]

I would argue that showing an image is the 'out' part of I/O.

On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Michael Aye <kmichael.aye at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just stumbled over the 3 lines of code on scikits' title page:
>
>
> from skimage import data, io, filter
> image = data.coins() # or any NumPy array!
> edges = filter.sobel(image)
> io.imshow(edges)
>
> and wondered: Isn't it a bit funny to require an I/O module to show an image
> that is already loaded?
>
> My apologies if that has been discussed before.
>
> Michael
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