I'm pretty new to Python and libraries. I'm actually trying to modify some code someone else wrote. There are two ways images are saved. One is for the user to select a "Save as GIF" menu item, or save as tiff, or others. The other way is that the user wants a collected image from a camera saved every, say, 10 minutes. The "save" process is different for some reason. Here are the two code segments involved:
A. Save every 10 minutes t = time.localtime(now_time) s = "a%4d%02d%02d_%02d%02d%02d.tif" % ( NOTE my comments below B. t.tm_year, t.tm_mon, t.tm_mday, t.tm_hour, t.tm_min, t.tm_sec ) s = os.path.join("Exposures",s) <========== auto-exposures if not os.path.exists("Exposures"): os.mkdir("Exposures") self.current_image.save(s) <============ save image if self.trigger_mode: self.Trigger() self.CheckEvent() contrast this with where the user specifically wants the image he sees saved as a gif: B. From menu option def SaveGIF(self): if self.current_path: default_path = splitext(basename(self.current_path))[0] + ".gif" path = asksaveasfilename(defaultextension=".gif", title="Save as GIF", initialfile=default_path, filetypes=GIF_FILE_TYPES) else: path = asksaveasfilename(defaultextension=".gif", title="Save as GIF", filetypes=GIF_FILE_TYPES) if not path: return gif = self.current_image.convert("RGB") gif.save(path) <===========Save as gif. The programmer told me if I change the tif in A. to gif, jpg or whatever, it would work. Instead I get a file the of zero length when I use jpg. Can anyone explain why this wouldn't work? I see that current_image.convert is involved in one place and current_image.save in the first. {I erroneously thought gif.save was some PIL method.) Hmmm, maybe I needed to use jpeg? As for fits formats, I see PIL shows FITS for identify only. Not sure what that means. Read but not write? Gary Herron wrote: > W. Watson wrote: >> In what library would I find gif.save(path), where path is the name >> and path of a file, and the method would produce a file in a gif >> format? >> >> Is there a fits.save(path) somewhere? fits is commonly used in >> astronomical work. >> > You may want to install PIL (the Python Image Library) for this: > > http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/ -- Wayne Watson (Nevada City, CA) Web Page: <speckledwithStars.net> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list