[Tutor] how to display an image using python

Jay Loden python at jayloden.com
Thu Apr 14 22:18:59 CEST 2005


If you don't mind using an external program, you could use the 'display' 
command from ImageMagick. 

-Jay

On Thursday 14 April 2005 07:59 pm, Ertl, John wrote:
> All,
>
> I have asked this question before, but one more time most have commented
> about manipulation but displaying the image has become the big issue.  I
> want to display png and gif images on a Linux machine using python.  I am
> using PyNGL to make the images and PIL to manipulate them but I cannot load
> xv on the machines and PIL uses xv to display.  I have looked at
> PythonMagick but I could not even get past installing it.  It does not have
> a setup.py and uses boost.  I am hoping for a more straightforward Python
> way.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John Ertl
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