How to perform JPEG compression in Python without writing/reading
For in-memory file-like stuff, you can use StringIO
.
Take a look:
from io import StringIO # "import StringIO" directly in python2
from PIL import Image
im1 = Image.open(IMAGE_FILE)
# here, we create an empty string buffer
buffer = StringIO.StringIO()
im1.save(buffer, "JPEG", quality=10)
# ... do something else ...
# write the buffer to a file to make sure it worked
with open("./photo-quality10.jpg", "w") as handle:
handle.write(buffer.contents())
If you check the photo-quality10.jpg
file, it should be the same image, but with 10% quality as the JPEG compression setting.
Using BytesIO
try:
from cStringIO import StringIO as BytesIO
except ImportError:
from io import BytesIO
def generate(self, image, format='jpeg'):
im = self.generate_image(image)
out = BytesIO()
im.save(out, format=format,quality=75)
out.seek(0)
return out
StringIO is missing in Python3.0, ref to : StringIO in python3