I want to take an image file, convert it to XBM format and display it. Thanks to Mr. Otten I can open and display the XBM image without any problems. The script first calls an external program for the image conversion then I can open and display it. Of course, I am left with the XBM file that needs to be deleted. It seemed to me to be a better approach to use stdout and pipe thereby eliminating the XBM file altogether. Here is code I have so far but I'm not sure what to do next...
convert = "convert " + fileName + " -resize 48x48! -threshold 55% xbm:-" p = subprocess.Popen([convert], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, shell=True) xbmFile, err = p.communicate() The variable fileName contains the image file path and name. The variable convert contains the complete command. The last argument in the command tells the convert utility to covert to an XBM and to direct the output to stdout. After the above code runs xbmFile contains the actual image, which is plain text. (X BitMap (XBM) is a plain text binary image format.) My question is how do I take the xbmFile variable and convert it to an image object that can be displayed? The technique for displaying an image from a file does not work or at least I have not been able to get it to work. -- <Wildman> GNU/Linux user #557453 "Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man." -Benjamin Franklin -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
