Modifying JPEG compression with PIL?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Dinu C. Gherman <gherman at darwin.in-berlin.de> wrote:
> Sorry, but I always fail to find appropriate PIL documenta-
> tion, so forgive me when I ask if using PIL I can take a JPEG 
> and increase its compression, so it will shrink in file size
> (and lose data as well)? If so, where can I read how to do 
> it?

im.save("foo.jpg", quality=50)

http://www.pythonware.com/library/pil/handbook/image.htm
http://www.pythonware.com/library/pil/handbook/formats.htm

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