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url_image_import.py
'''
The code takes the url of an image and converts it into a numpy array.
'''
import matplotlib.pylab as plt
import numpy as np
import cStringIO
import Image
import urllib
file = cStringIO.StringIO(urllib.urlopen(url_sim_data).read())
url_sim_data = 'https://farm4.staticflickr.com/<the_rest_of_the_url>.jpg'
img = Image.open(file)
data = np.asarray(img)
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