[Tutor] im.getdata()

[Roel Schroeven]

elis aeris schreef:
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> I am capturing a screen shot, but then the image was already  
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> image,   how do I .load it ?
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> it's not image.load()

I see. In that case, you can't use the method I described; that only 
works if you load the image from disk (as far as I know). I think you'd 
better use getdata() as Alan described.

Something like this, if you need to access the pixels column-by-column 
(Is that really what you want? You still haven't told us):

# ...
image = ImageGrab.grab ((rect.left, rect.top, rect.right, rect.bottom))
pixels = image.getdata()
for x in xrange(0, 1024):
   for y in xrange(0, 768):
     print pixels[x + y * 768]

Note: pixel indices start from 0, not from 1.

If you want to access them row-by-row (as is generally more often the 
case) and you don't have a special need to have the x and y available:

image = ImageGrab.grab ((rect.left, rect.top, rect.right, rect.bottom))
for pixel in image.getdata():
   print pixel


Anyway, you're printing a lot of pixels (786432 actually)... is that 
really what you want?


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Roel Schroeven