On 29 Dec 2011, at 12:31, auto11436...@hushmail.com wrote:
> Hi, I wanted to get the actual bmp data without writting the content to disk.
>
> Example:
> im = Image.new("RGB", (16, 16) )
> im.save('image.bmp')
>
> I want to avoid im.save, and just get the actual BMP file data for further
> processing.
>
> Hope you can help me.
Hi,
The im.save method can accept a file object instead of a filename, which means
you can avoid writing to disk by passing it a StringIO object instead:
import StringIO, Image
im = Image.new("RGB", (16, 16) )
io = StringIO.StringIO()
im.save(io, 'bmp')
bmpdata = io.getvalue()
- Matt
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