Getting image informations

[Gerhard Häring]

* Sebastian Roth <xsebbi at gmx.de> [2002-05-20 22:35 +0200]:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm currently looking for an function that give informations about an 
> image/pictire -file like test.png oder test.gif. I need especially two 
> informations:
> width and heigth .
> 
> Midnight Commander can tell me this things, but how could Python do 
> that? Is there an special module for such things?
 
The Python Imaging Library (PIL) http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/

If you use Linux or *BSD, it's usually even available as a
RPM/dpkg/package/... on your distribution's CDs or in the ports
collection. But installing from source is no problem, either.

Gerhard
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reduce(lambda x,y:x+y,map(lambda x:chr(ord(x)^42),tuple('zS^BED\nX_FOY\x0b')))