Re-sizing images in Python?

[Darren Watson]

I would be very grateful for any advice that fellow list members can provide
about Pythons ability to resize image files (jpg and gif).

I would like to write a script that can process all the files in a directory
and resize the images to a specified size (passed in as an argument).
However, I am not sure if this is a task that Python 2.1 can perform or if
it is, which library to use.

If possible I would like the script to scale images in order to 'best fit' a
particular area.

Many Thanks

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Darren Watson