To scale images, you should get Pillow, which can construct new images based on old ones for arbitrary size. see: http://pillow.readthedocs.org/en/latest/reference/Image.html
Pillow is a fork of PIL. PIL isn't being maintained, Pillow is. Note that reading this is a good idea: http://united-coders.com/christian-harms/image-resizing-tips-every-coder-should-know/ It even has some code that you can probably use, though I haven't tested it. It just, ah, looks right. :) Laura -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list