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

Add an extension for the output file like .jpg, .png, etc based on the application.

For example in this case you could use,

import cv2
image = cv2.imread('Lena.jpg')
cv2.imwrite('Mypic.jpg',image)