get_screen = SCREEN.subsurface(0, 0, SCREENW, SCREENH) # grab the screen
how can you concert get_screen to a jpeg or a png WITHOUT saving to disk?
In Pygame..
Thanks
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 12:21 AM, Radomir Dopieralski <pyg...@sheep.art.pl>
wrote:
> On 08/08/2014 11:16 AM, diliup gabadamudalige wrote:
> > Hi all!
> >
> > Is there a way to convert a pygame surface to a png or jpeg IN MEMORY
> > instead of saving to disk and loading again?
> > something like
> > get_screen = SCREEN.subsurface(0, 0, SCREENW, SCREENH) # grab the screen
> >
> > my_image = get_screen.convert(jpeg) # now convert the image to jpeg
> >
> > and now my_image is a jpeg image of get_screen
> >
> > I searched the net but couldn't find any other way other than save to
> > disk as jpeg and reload.
> >
> > Any positive OR negative help is very much appreciated.
>
> Sure, just use StringIO to use memory instead of a file.
>
> import pygame
> import StringIO
>
> s = pygame.image.load("yourimage.png")
> f = StringIO.StringIO()
> f.name = 'yourimage.jpg'
> pygame.image.save(s, f)
>
> yourimage = f.getvalue()
>
>
> --
> Radomir Dopieralski
>
>
>
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