Thanks a lot Gabriel, Your answer is perfect.
I was only looking in part II of the PIL manual and overlooked the Appendix :-(. I also apreciate Image.ID , Image.SAVE , Image.OPEN I saw them when typing dir Image but I never had the idea of calling Image.init() first bye N Gabriel Genellina wrote: > En Thu, 23 Jul 2009 06:56:45 -0300, News123 <news...@free.fr> escribió: > >> Somehow I have difficulties reading the documentation for PIL (Image) >> >> Is there an easy way to know which formats are supported and what their >> names are? > > py> import PIL > py> from PIL import Image > py> Image.ID > [] > py> Image.init() > py> Image.ID > ['PNG', 'ARG', 'BMP', 'BUFR', 'CUR', 'PCX', 'DCX', 'EPS', 'FITS', 'FLI', > 'FPX', > 'GBR', 'GIF', 'GRIB', 'HDF5', 'ICNS', 'ICO', 'IM', 'IMT', 'IPTC', > 'JPEG', 'MCIDA > S', 'TIFF', 'MIC', 'MPEG', 'MSP', 'PCD', 'PIXAR', 'PPM', 'PSD', 'SGI', > 'SPIDER', > 'SUN', 'TGA', 'WBMP', 'WMF', 'XBM', 'XPM', 'XVTHUMB'] > py> Image.OPEN.keys() > ['PCX', 'ICNS', 'HDF5', 'SUN', 'MIC', 'EPS', 'MSP', 'FLI', 'FITS', > 'GBR', 'WBMP' > , 'PCD', 'PIXAR', 'BUFR', 'PPM', 'WMF', 'SGI', 'BMP', 'TGA', 'DCX', > 'ICO', 'CUR' > , 'XPM', 'TIFF', 'JPEG', 'SPIDER', 'GIF', 'GRIB', 'IM', 'IMT', 'IPTC', > 'FPX', 'X > BM', 'MPEG', 'PSD', 'ARG', 'XVTHUMB', 'PNG', 'MCIDAS'] > py> Image.SAVE.keys() > ['XBM', 'PCX', 'SPIDER', 'HDF5', 'TIFF', 'BUFR', 'EPS', 'JPEG', 'MSP', > 'GRIB', ' > GIF', 'BMP', 'IM', 'PPM', 'PDF', 'FITS', 'PALM', 'WBMP', 'WMF', 'PNG'] > >> Is there an easy way to know which parameters are supported by >> Image.save(). How can I list them where are they documented? > > That depends on the format being used. The PIL handbook lists the > standard formats used and their parameters: > http://www.pythonware.com/library/pil/handbook/index.htm > >> I'm at a complete loss at finding out what parameters the save function >> accepts for saving a JPG file or a PNG file > > http://www.pythonware.com/library/pil/handbook/format-jpeg.htm > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list