Re: [pygame] Pygame surface

[Peter Shinners <pete@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 09/09/2014 04:57 AM, diliup gabadamudalige wrote:
> How can a Pygame surface be converted to an image file say a jpeg or a 
> png WITHOUT writing the file to disk? Say after a screen grab?


It is not highly documented, but you can pass a file-like object to 
pygame.image.save. So instead of a filename you could create a StringIO 
buffer and write into that. Or you could use something crazy like an 
html post request and upload directly to a website.

If you are trying to load the image into a different library, it will be 
easier to use the "tobuffer" or "tostring" methods on the Surface. Then 
hope the other library you are using has a fromstring, frombuffer, or 
fromdata style function.