python - How do you save an image displayed in Spyder Plots panel programmatically?

Question

I have recently attempted to save images in Spyder using the pyplot.savefig() command as follows (imported from matplotlib), but it doesn't work:

E.g. code:

filename = 'myImage.png'

#images contain the image shown in the Spyder Plots pane
pyplot.imshow(images)

pyplot.savefig(filename)

I am aware that the Plots pane has a Save button, but I want to save the image programmatically (using Python).

Please advise.

Thanks!

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65713791/how-do-you-save-an-image-displayed-in-spyder-plots-panel-programmatically

Answer 1

Use plt.imsave() to save the image. Here is the code:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.image as mpimg
img = mpimg.imread('test.png')
plt.imshow(img)
plt.imsave("myImage.png", img)
plt.show()