PIL and pygame.image

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Sadly the accepted answer doesn’t work anymore, because Image.tostring() has been removed. It has been replaced by Image.tobytes(). See Pillow – Image Module.

Function to convert a PIL Image to a pygame.Surface object:

def pilImageToSurface(pilImage):
    return pygame.image.fromstring(
        pilImage.tobytes(), pilImage.size, pilImage.mode).convert()

It is recommended to convert() the Surface to have the same pixel format as the display Surface.

Minimal example:

import pygame
from PIL import Image

def pilImageToSurface(pilImage):
    return pygame.image.fromstring(
        pilImage.tobytes(), pilImage.size, pilImage.mode).convert()

pygame.init()
window = pygame.display.set_mode((500, 500))
clock = pygame.time.Clock()

pilImage = Image.open('myimage.png')
pygameSurface = pilImageToSurface(pilImage)

run = True
while run:
    clock.tick(60)
    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
            run = False

    window.fill(0)
    window.blit(pygameSurface, pygameSurface.get_rect(center = (250, 250)))
    pygame.display.flip()

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