[Numpy-discussion] Interfacing with PIL?

[Tim Hochberg]

Johannes Loehnert wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 30. August 2006 19:20 schrieb Ghalib Suleiman:
>   
>> I'm somewhat new to both libraries...is there any way to create a 2D
>> array of pixel values from an image object from the Python Image
>> Library? I'd like to do some arithmetic on the values.
>>     
>
> Yes.
>
> To transport the data:
>   
>>>> import numpy
>>>> image = <some PIL image>
>>>> arr = numpy.fromstring(image.tostring(), dtype=numpy.uint8)
>>>>         
>
> (alternately use dtype=numpy.uint32 if you want RGBA packed in one number).
>
> arr will be a 1d array with length (height * width * b(ytes)pp). Use reshape 
> to get it into a reasonable form.
>   
On a related note, does anyone have a good recipe for converting a PIL 
image to a wxPython image? The last time I tried this, the best I could 
come up with was:

        stream = cStringIO.StringIO()
        img.save(stream, "png")   # img is PIL Image
        stream.seek(0)
        image = wx.ImageFromStream(stream) # image is a wxPython Image


-tim