[Pythonmac-SIG] Geting information about images

[Dinu Gherman]

Josh English:

> I have a quick question which will probably lead to a long answer. I
> would like to find a way for python to examine a .jpeg or .gif file and
> return the image dimensions in pixels.
>
> I've been looking through the img* files but I can't find anything so 
> simple.
>
> Thanks for any help,

Let me try giving a short answer. What you need is PIL from
pythonware.com. Then you can write a snippet like the one
below.

Dinu


 >>> import Image
 >>> im = Image.open("lena.jpg")
 >>> print im.format, im.size, im.mode
JPEG (208, 222) RGB
 >>> im.save("lena.png", "PNG")