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  PIL Question PyNewbie <ryan.morrone@gmail.com> - 2011-05-01 13:50 -0700
    Re: PIL Question Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2011-05-01 18:00 -0700
    Re: PIL Question Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-05-01 22:50 -0400
    Re: PIL Question nirinA raseliarison <nirina.raseliarison@gmail.com> - 2011-05-02 10:48 +0300

#4415 — PIL Question

Hi,

I'm new with Python and PIL. I have a very simple question regarding an image capture function I'm attempting. 

Here is the code:


>>> from PIL import ImageGrab
>>> ImageGrab.grab().save("screen_capture.jpg", "JPEG")

Question: I can't seem to find the captured image, where does it go?  The python Shell IDE does not display an error, and the code appears to have been processed. 

Additional Info: I'm using Python 2.6, and PIL 1.1.7 for Python 2.6 Windows. 

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#4428

On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 1:50 PM, PyNewbie <ryan.morrone@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new with Python and PIL. I have a very simple question regarding an image capture function I'm attempting.
>
> Here is the code:
>
>
>>>> from PIL import ImageGrab
>>>> ImageGrab.grab().save("screen_capture.jpg", "JPEG")
>
> Question: I can't seem to find the captured image, where does it go?  The python Shell IDE does not display an error, and the code appears to have been processed.
>
> Additional Info: I'm using Python 2.6, and PIL 1.1.7 for Python 2.6 Windows.

I would think to a file named "screen_capture.jpg" in the current
working directory. What that is for IDLE, I don't know. You can
determine what folder that is by running this in your Python shell:

from os import getcwd
print(getcwd())

Also, I would suggest using absolute file paths in the future, rather
than relative ones; e.g. "C:/Documents and Settings/Your
username/Desktop/screen_capture.jpg" rather than just
"screen_capture.jpg".

Cheers,
Chris

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#4435

On 5/1/2011 9:00 PM, Chris Rebert wrote:

> I would think to a file named "screen_capture.jpg" in the current
> working directory. What that is for IDLE, I don't know.

At least on windows with 3.2, if one just starts up the shell, it is in 
the Pythonxy directory. If one runs a file from an edit window, it 
changes to the directory of the file, so it operates much as if one had 
run with the command python -i file.py in the directory of file.py.

> You can
> determine what folder that is by running this in your Python shell:
>
> from os import getcwd; print(getcwd())

Yes, this gives two different answers in the two cases noted above.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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#4452

[PyNewbie]

> Question: I can't seem to find the captured image, where does it go?

for me, it just goes to the current working directory:

   $ python -i
   Python 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Dec 23 2008, 15:10:54) [MSC v.1310 32 bit  
(Intel)] on win32
   Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
   >>> from PIL import ImageGrab
   >>> ImageGrab.grab().save("screen_capture.jpg", "JPEG")
   >>> import os
   >>> os.listdir(os.getcwd())
   ['.appcfg_cookies', '.appcfg_nag', '.bash_history', '.idlerc',  
'.inputrc', '.povray',
   'bootex.log', 'buildBasicDemo.txt', 'glsample.cpp', 'glsample.o',  
'log.txt',
   'screen_capture.jpg', 'test.c']
   >>>

-- 
nirinA

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