The code sample shows how to get an image from the internet and show it in a Tkinter label widget.
Show internet image with Tkinter
JeffGrigg commented: And your question is...? -1
''' Tk_PIL_Image_url.py
get a .jpg image from the internet and show it with
PIL and Tkinter
used PIL fork Pillow from:
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pillow/2.2.1#downloads
Windows installer:
Pillow-2.2.1.win32-py2.7.exe or
Pillow-2.2.1.win32-py3.3.exe
tested with Python27 and Python33 by vegaseat 14nov2013
'''
from PIL import Image
from PIL import ImageTk
import io
try:
# Python2
from urllib2 import urlopen
import Tkinter as tk
except ImportError:
# Python3
from urllib.request import urlopen
import tkinter as tk
# get a URL based image from the internet
# if the url was very long, split it in half
part1 = "http://uploads.neatorama.com/wp-content/"
part2 = "uploads/2011/05/cogtrain-500x688.jpg"
url = part1 + part2
fin = urlopen(url)
# read into a memory stream
s = io.BytesIO(fin.read())
pil_image = Image.open(s)
# let PIL determine the size info
print(pil_image.size)
# create Tkinter window
root = tk.Tk()
# convert PIL image to something Tkinter can handle
tk_image = ImageTk.PhotoImage(pil_image)
# show the image in a label
label = tk.Label(root, image=tk_image)
label.pack()
root.mainloop()
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