image_cat() not defined error

[sumitpowar]

HI,

What is image_cat() in the following code (given in lesson 1)?

img = PILImage.create(image_cat())
img.to_thumb(192)

It gives following error after running it:

**NameError Traceback (most recent call last)
in
----> 1 img = PILImage.create(image_cat())
2 img.to_thumb(192)

NameError: name 'image_cat' is not defined**

[venomoustoad]

make sure you import * from fastbook
image_cat is a function that returns a sample cat image built into the fast.ai lib

import fastbook
fastbook.setup_book()
from fastbook import *

[PO20]

thanks, venomoustoad!

I had the same issue. This one line: from fastbook import * fixes NameError mentioned by sumitpowar above:

from fastbook import *
img1 = PILImage.create(image_cat())
img1.to_thumb(192)

The course page may benefit from this modification.

Best,
PO

[jasondeegan]

Still doesn't work. Neither does:
from fastai import *

Turns out that you can corrupt a Kaggle notebook with the wrong imports. Starting from scratch and this works:
! pip install -Uqq fastbook
import fastbook
fastbook.setup_book()
from fastbook import *
img = PILImage.create(image_cat())
img.to_thumb(192)