René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Simplify handling of remote JPGs","articleBody":"Would it be possible to enhance Matplotlib to allow \"im=imread(url)\"\nto work if url returns a JPG?\n\nCurrently (it seems):\n- If the URL returns a PNG this works:\n\n```\nim = imread(urllib2.urlopen(url))\n```\n- If the URL returns a JPG, this DOESN'T work:\n\n```\nim = imread(urllib2.urlopen(url))\n```\n\n.. and neither does this:\n\n```\nim = imread(urllib2.urlopen(url),format='jpg')\n```\n\n... but this DOES work:\n\n```\nim = Image.open(cStringIO.StringIO(urllib.urlopen(url).read()))\n```\n\nSee an example in Ipython Notebook here:\nhttp://nbviewer.ipython.org/3918576/\n\nSo could just be hidden from the user so that \"im = imread(url)\" would\njust work for JPG (assuming PIL was installed)?\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/rsignell-usgs","@type":"Person","name":"rsignell-usgs"},"datePublished":"2015-03-20T14:24:16.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":7},"url":"https://github.com/4252/matplotlib/issues/4252"}