Pil image module, "mode" bug..

[Michal Bozon]

On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 09:02:09 -0700, Abandoned wrote:

> On Oct 7, 4:47 pm, Michal Bozon <boz... at vscht.cz> wrote:
>> On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 06:03:06 -0700, Abandoned wrote:
>> > Hi..
>> > I find the picture color with:
>> > im=Image.open("/%s" %name)
>> > color=im.mode   #p=black & beyaz rgb=color L=grey
>>
>> > This usually work true but in these pictures:
>> >http://malatya.meb.gov.tr/images/alt/ilsis_logo.gif
>> >http://malatya.meb.gov.tr/images/meb.gif
>>
>> > Say me P (black&white) but these pictures are color..
>>
>> > What is the reason of this ?
>>
>> > I'm sorry my bad english
>>
>> P does mean palette, black&white is a special case of palette, with two
>> colors.
> 
> How can i understand the picture color ? (black &white or color or
> grey)

If you know how to work with RGB images, you can convert the image
from the palette mode easily:

img2 = img.convert(mode='RGB')

Anyway, always is helpful to read the tutorial or basic documentation.. ;)

 MB