Showing an image from console in Python

Question

What is the easiest way to show a .jpg or .gif image from Python console?

I\'ve got a Python console program that is checking a data set wh

Answer 1

Using the awesome Pillow library:

>>> from PIL import Image                                                                                
>>> img = Image.open('test.png')
>>> img.show() 

This will open the image in your default image viewer.