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"""
Simple demo of the imshow function.
"""
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.cbook as cbook

image_file = cbook.get_sample_data('ada.png')
image = plt.imread(image_file)

plt.imshow(image)
plt.axis('off')  # clear x- and y-axes
plt.show()

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