On 09/09/2014 04:57 AM, diliup gabadamudalige wrote:
How can a Pygame surface be converted to an image file say a jpeg or a
png WITHOUT writing the file to disk? Say after a screen grab?
It is not highly documented, but you can pass a file-like object to
pygame.image.save. So instead of a filename you could create a StringIO
buffer and write into that. Or you could use something crazy like an
html post request and upload directly to a website.
If you are trying to load the image into a different library, it will be
easier to use the "tobuffer" or "tostring" methods on the Surface. Then
hope the other library you are using has a fromstring, frombuffer, or
fromdata style function.
