PIL: match for ImageMagick's display -ping

[Torsten Bronger]

Hallöchen!

I have to extract the dimensions of many bitmap files. An old Bash
script did it with ImageMagick's "display -ping ...". "-ping" means
that it extracts the image dimensions efficiently. I suspect it
simply doesn't read the image itself.

Now the Bash script has been transformed into Python+PIL. Is there
a way to get the dimensions equally efficient here, or does the PIL
even do this optimisation implicitly since I never access the image
bitmap itself?

Thank you!

Tschö,
Torsten.

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[Steve Holden]

Re: PIL: match for ImageMagick's display -ping

Torsten Bronger wrote:

Hallöchen!
>
I have to extract the dimensions of many bitmap files. An old Bash
script did it with ImageMagick's "display -ping ...". "-ping" means
that it extracts the image dimensions efficiently. I suspect it
simply doesn't read the image itself.
>
Now the Bash script has been transformed into Python+PIL. Is there
a way to get the dimensions equally efficient here, or does the PIL
even do this optimisation implicitly since I never access the image
bitmap itself?
>

>>import Image
>>i = Image.open("Hel lo.png")
>>i.size

(142, 23)

>>>

The image data isn't read until an operation requires it, so this is an
efficient way to get its size.

regards
Steve
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