Importing PNG files into Numpy?

According to the doc, scipy.misc.imread is deprecated starting SciPy 1.0.0, and will be removed in 1.2.0. Consider using imageio.imread instead.

Example:

import imageio

im = imageio.imread('my_image.png')
print(im.shape)

You can also use imageio to load from fancy sources:

im = imageio.imread('http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Wikipedia_Logo_1.0.png')

Edit:

To load all of the *.png files in a specific folder, you could use the glob package:

import imageio
import glob

for im_path in glob.glob("path/to/folder/*.png"):
     im = imageio.imread(im_path)
     print(im.shape)
     # do whatever with the image here