[Image-SIG] How to generate optimal palettes ?

[Martin Renold]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 10:42:22PM -0700, Chris Cogdon wrote:
> im3 = im2.convert ( 'P' )

There is an undocumented feature (don't ask me why, I'm just another
random PIL user) to do this:

im3 = im2.convert('P', None, None, Image.ADAPTIVE, 227)

Seems to generate an optimal palette with 227 colors.
The definition in the source code:

def convert(self, mode=None, data=None, dither=None,
            palette=WEB, colors=256):

In the python shell, you can type 
>>> import Image; help(Image)
And it will show you the path to the file where the definition is.

bye,
Martin