What's the difference between mpimg.imread and plt.imread when I read an image with Python?

I'm trying to read an image, and I found that both following sentences are okay, so what's the difference?

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt  img = plt.imread("1.jpg")  

or

import matplotlib.image as mpimg  img = mpimg.imread('1.jpg')  

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67030411/whats-the-difference-between-mpimg-imread-and-plt-imread-when-i-read-an-image-w April 10, 2021 at 10:58AM