[Image-SIG] PIL and simple conversion

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Thu Dec 4 18:49:21 CET 2008


On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Scott David Daniels
<Scott.Daniels at acm.org> wrote:

> Almost a FAQ:
>
>    import cStringIO
>    import Image
>
>    im = Image.open("xyzzy.png")
>    ...
>    holder = cStringIO.StringIO()
>    im.save(holder, format="png", transparency=0)
>    bytes_string = holder.getvalue()

I was about to point out that it's actually mentioned in the latest
version of the docs, but then I discovered that it's mentioned under
"tostring" but not under "save".  Looks like I have some editing to
do...

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