do i need to create new rgbimage class

[jimgardener]

hi
am a beginner in python and PIL .I need to read an RGB 8 bit image
(am using jpeg )and pack the rgb color values into a double value so i
can store the image as a list of pixelvalues.Fro m my application i
should be able to call rgbimage1.getpi xellist() to retrieve the double
values of an image.
Do i need to create a new class for this?I made something like

class myrgbimage:
def __init__(self,f ilename):

def _readimage(self ):
im=Image.open(f ilename)
self._readImage (filename)
self._wd,self._ ht=im.size
for y in range(self._ht) :
for x in range(self._wd) :
r,g,b=im.getpix el((x,y))
pval=self.rgbTo doubleval((r,g, b))
self._pixellist .append(pval)

def rgbTodoubleval( self,(r,g,b)):
alpha=255
pixelvalue=(alp ha<<24)|(r<<16 )|( g<<8) | b
return pixelvalue

the way i am currently using this is to create instances using
filenames and then retrieving the list of pixelvalues in the image.
like
for z in imagefilenameli st:
myimage=myrgbim age(z)
imagelist.appen d(z)

so later on i can take each instance and get its width,height and
pixellist and work with them..anyway the code takes too much time and
I wish to know if i can get these 'packed pixelvalues' straight away
without using the above class

jim

[Gabriel Genellina]

On 29 dic, 12:42, jimgarde...@gma il.com wrote:

am a beginner in python and PIL *.I need to read an RGB 8 bit image
(am using jpeg )and pack the rgb color values into a double value so i
can store the image as a list of pixelvalues.Fro m my application i
should be able to call rgbimage1.getpi xellist() to retrieve the double
values of an image.

(May I ask why an accessor like getpixellist() instead of simply
rgbimage1.pixel list?)

Do i need to create a new class for this?I made something like

class myrgbimage:
* * * def *__init__(self, filename):

* * * def _readimage(self ):
* * * * * im=Image.open(f ilename)
* * * * * self._readImage (filename)
* * * * * self._wd,self._ ht=im.size
* * * * * for y in range(self._ht) :
* * * * * * * *for x in range(self._wd) :
* * * * * * * * * * *r,g,b=im.getpi xel((x,y))
* * * * * * * * * * *pval=self.rgbT odoubleval((r,g ,b))
* * * * * * * * * * *self._pixellis t.append(pval)

The PIL docs at [1] say that using getpixel is very slow, and suggest
to use getdata instead. And you want a flat representation anyway,
just like getdata. So replace the for loops above with:

rgbTodoubleval = self.rgbTodoubl eval
self._pixellist = [rgbTodoubleval( pix) for pix in
im.getdata()]

I've not tested it, but should be faster.

def rgbTodoubleval( self,(r,g,b)):
alpha=255
pixelvalue=(alp ha<<24)|(r<<16 )|( g<<8) | b
return pixelvalue

I don't get the name - why "rgb to double"? This does not return a
"double", but a long integer, even if you intended to return a 32 bit
integer.
This version returns an integer:

from struct import pack, unpack
def rgbTodoubleval( (r,g,b)):
alpha=255
return unpack("l", pack("BBBB", b, g, r, alfa))[0]

It *may*, or not, be what you want...

--
Gabriel Genellina

[Gabriel Genellina]

On 30 dic, 04:57, Gabriel Genellina <[e-mail].a rwrote:

The PIL docs at [1] say that using getpixel is very slow, and suggest

Sorry, dropped the reference:

[1] http://www.effbot.org/imagingbook/im...Image.getpixel

--
Gabriel Genellina

[jimgardener]

(May I ask why an accessor like getpixellist() instead of simply

rgbimage1.pixel list?)

sorry,
bad style of coding on my part..was doing java stuff..

>
I don't get the name - why "rgb to double"? This does not return a
"double", but a long integer,

actually it was to be of 'long' type not double..sorry again

jim

[Gabriel Genellina]

On 30 dic, 10:53, jimgarde...@gma il.com wrote:

I don't get the name - why "rgb to double"? This does not return a
"double", but a long integer,

actually it was to be of 'long' type not double..sorry again

Notice that a Python 'long' is an infinite range integer; the C 'long'
type maps to Python 'int'. Perhaps you want the latter.

--
Gabriel Genellina