Installing imageio
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Imageio is written in pure Python, so installation is easy.
Imageio works on Python `2.7 <drop27.html>`_ and 3.4+. It also works on Pypy.
Imageio depends on Numpy and Pillow. For some formats, imageio needs
additional libraries/executables (e.g. ffmpeg), which imageio helps you
download and store in a folder in your application data.
To install imageio, use one of the following methods:
* If you are in a conda env: ``conda install -c conda-forge imageio``
* If you have pip: ``pip install imageio``
* Good old ``python setup.py install``
After installation, checkout the
:doc:`examples <examples>` and :doc:`user api <userapi>`.
Developers
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For developers, we provide a simple mechanism to allow importing
imageio from the cloned repository. See the file ``imageio.proxy.py`` for
details.
Further imageio has the following dev-dependencies:
``pip install black pytest pytest-cov sphinx numpydoc``
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