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Abdul Abdul <abdul.sw84@gmail.com> Wrote in message:
> I came across an example that starts as follows:
> 
> from scipy.ndimage import filters
> img = zeros(im.shape)
> 
> What does the second line mean here? Is it setting the image pixels to zero? What is "shape" here?
> 

This example is incomplete. Neither zeros nor im are defined in
 the python versions I have installed,  and shape is an attribute
 of im, whatever type that is.

Your example needs at least another import, probably like

from numpy import zeros


 http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/generated/numpy.zeros.html

But I can't guess what im might be, unless it's some numpy instance. 

The other thing missing from the example is the python version. 

-- 
DaveA