On 10/31/2010 05:04 PM, News123 wrote: > importing ImageGrab un Ubuntu 10.4 fails as seen below: > > import _grabscreen > ImportError: No module named _grabscreen >
Well I found a partial answer on http://www.pythonware.com/library/pil/handbook/imagegrab.htm > The ImageGrab module can be used to copy the contents of the screen or the > clipboard to a PIL image memory. > > The current version works on Windows only. I just wonder why there is no cleaerer message like "platform not supported" As a workaround I use now: cmd = "import -window root %s" % fname os.system(cmd) img = Image.open(fname) using the 'import' command of the ImageMagick tool kit Is there any other way to make screen shots in Linux, ideally without creating an intermediate file -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
