Trying to run simple PIL python example, can't convert jpeg to float

Question

so I wrote a simple python script

from PIL import Image
from pylab import *
im = array(Image.open(\'sample.jpg\'))
imshow(im)

and i get this er

Answer 1

What you have is close. Looking at the imshow docs, you need to pass either an Image OR a data array.

This should work:

from PIL import Image
from pylab import *
im = Image.open('sample.jpg')
imshow(im)

Here's what imshow() is expecting:

"X may be a float array, a uint8 array or a PIL image."

There are some more details here:
http://matplotlib.org/api/pyplot_api.html#matplotlib.pyplot.imshow