It is intentional.  IplImage is deprecated.

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Advait Jain <advait@cc.gatech.edu> wrote:

> In the python implementation of cv_bridge the imgmsg_to_cv function
> returns a CvMat object instead of an IplImage. This is different from the
> documentation and the C++ implementation. Is this intentional or a bug?
>
> Advait
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