TypeError: Image data can not convert to float

Question

I am trying to create a 16-bit image like so:

import skimage  import random from random import randint                         xrow=raw_input("Enter the number of rows to be present in image.=>") row=int(xrow) ycolumn=raw_input("Enter the number of columns to be present in image.=>") column=int(ycolumn)  A={} for x in xrange(1,row):     for y in xrange(1,column):         a=randint(0,65535)         A[x,y]=a   imshow(A) 

But I get the error TypeError: Image data can not convert to float.

Answer 1

This question comes up first in the Google search for this type error, but does not have a general answer about the cause of the error. The poster's unique problem was the use of an inappropriate object type as the main argument for plt.imshow(). A more general answer is that plt.imshow() wants an array of floats and if you don't specify a float, numpy, pandas, or whatever else, might infer a different data type somewhere along the line. You can avoid this by specifying a float for the dtype argument is the constructor of the object.

See the Numpy documentation here.

See the Pandas documentation here

Answer 2

This happened for me when I was trying to plot an imagePath, instead of the image itself. The fix was to load the image, and plotting it.