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Miscellaneous routines (scipy.misc)

Various utilities that don’t have another home.

Note that Pillow (https://python-pillow.org/) is not a dependency of SciPy, but the image manipulation functions indicated in the list below are not available without it.

ascent()	Get an 8-bit grayscale bit-depth, 512 x 512 derived image for easy use in demos
central_diff_weights(Np[, ndiv])	Return weights for an Np-point central derivative.
derivative(func, x0[, dx, n, args, order])	Find the n-th derivative of a function at a point.
face([gray])	Get a 1024 x 768, color image of a raccoon face.
electrocardiogram()	Load an electrocardiogram as an example for a one-dimensional signal.

Deprecated functions:

bytescale
fromimage
imfilter
imread
imresize
imrotate
imsave
imshow
toimage

Deprecated aliases:

comb(\*args, \*\*kwds)	comb is deprecated! Importing comb from scipy.misc is deprecated in scipy 1.0.0.
factorial(\*args, \*\*kwds)	factorial is deprecated! Importing factorial from scipy.misc is deprecated in scipy 1.0.0.
factorial2(\*args, \*\*kwds)	factorial2 is deprecated! Importing factorial2 from scipy.misc is deprecated in scipy 1.0.0.
factorialk(\*args, \*\*kwds)	factorialk is deprecated! Importing factorialk from scipy.misc is deprecated in scipy 1.0.0.
logsumexp(\*args, \*\*kwds)	logsumexp is deprecated! Importing logsumexp from scipy.misc is deprecated in scipy 1.0.0.
pade(\*args, \*\*kwds)	pade is deprecated! Importing pade from scipy.misc is deprecated in scipy 1.0.0.
info(\*args, \*\*kwds)	Get help information for a function, class, or module.
source(\*args, \*\*kwds)	source is deprecated! Importing source from scipy.misc is deprecated in scipy 1.0.0.
who(\*args, \*\*kwds)	who is deprecated! Importing who from scipy.misc is deprecated in scipy 1.0.0.