From 6a6e273d0679e35237db877056b4e85e8ca41e56 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tony S Yu <tsyu80@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 10:16:23 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Remove thresholding example from user guide in favor of
 docstring example.

---
 doc/examples/plot_otsu.py            | 23 -----------------------
 skimage/thresholding/thresholding.py |  6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 doc/examples/plot_otsu.py

diff --git a/doc/examples/plot_otsu.py b/doc/examples/plot_otsu.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 03534bc9..00000000
--- a/doc/examples/plot_otsu.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-"""
-============
-Thresholding
-============
-
-Thresholding is used to create a binary image. This example uses Otsu's method to calculate the threshold value.
-
-"""
-
-import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
-
-from skimage.data import camera
-from skimage.thresholding import threshold_otsu
-
-
-image = camera()
-thresh = threshold_otsu(camera())
-binary = image > thresh
-
-plt.imshow(binary)
-plt.axis('off')
-plt.show()
-
diff --git a/skimage/thresholding/thresholding.py b/skimage/thresholding/thresholding.py
index b274010f..861d2647 100644
--- a/skimage/thresholding/thresholding.py
+++ b/skimage/thresholding/thresholding.py
@@ -24,6 +24,12 @@ def threshold_otsu(image, bins=256):
     ----------
     .. [1] Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otsu's_Method
 
+    Examples
+    --------
+    >>> from skimage.data import camera
+    >>> image = camera()
+    >>> thresh = threshold_otsu(camera())
+    >>> binary = image > thresh
     """
     hist, bin_centers = histogram(image, bins)
     hist = hist.astype(float)