Re: Time for : comp.lang.python.newbies ??

2004-12-07 Thread Ron Phillips
Speaking for the newbies (or that segment of them who aren't asking you to do their homework/job/googling for them):   The trouble is, we don't know whether we can't find information(X) because: "X" is not the term "knowbies" use for the concept, or because: information(X) is rare due to the

PIL and format conversions -- Noobie.

2004-12-14 Thread Ron Phillips
I have a monster jpg (128 mb) that comprises a handful of colors (20 or so, max). It should never have been compressed with jpeg compression, as I understand it. It should have been a png or gif, since they are made to handle blocks of a few colors.   I used PIL to convert it to png and to gi