Wand
Wand is a ctypes-based simple ImageMagick binding for Python.
from wand.image import Image
from wand.display import display
with Image(filename='mona-lisa.png') as img:
print img.size
for r in 1, 2, 3:
with img.clone() as i:
i.resize(int(i.width * r * 0.25), int(i.height * r * 0.25))
i.rotate(90 * r)
i.save(filename='mona-lisa-{0}.png'.format(r))
display(i)
You can install it from PyPI (and it requires MagickWand library):
$ apt-get install libmagickwand-dev
$ easy_install Wand
Why just another binding?
There are already many MagickWand API bindings for Python, however they are lacking something we need:
- Pythonic and modern interfaces
- Good documentation
- Binding through ctypes (not C API) — we are ready to go PyPy!
- Installation using pip or easy_install
Requirements
- Python 2.6 or higher
- CPython 2.6 or higher
- PyPy 1.5 or higher
- MagickWand library
- libmagickwand-dev for APT on Debian/Ubuntu
- imagemagick for MacPorts/Homebrew on Mac
- ImageMagick-devel for Yum on CentOS
User’s guide
References
Mailing list
Wand has the list for users. If you want to subscribe the list, just send a mail to:
The list archive provided by Librelist is synchronized every hour.
Open source
Wand is an open source software written by Hong Minhee (initially written for StyleShare). See also the complete list of contributors as well. The source code is distributed under MIT license and you can find it at GitHub repository. Check out now:
$ git clone git://github.com/dahlia/wand.git
If you find a bug, please notify to our issue tracker. Pull requests are always welcome!
We discuss about Wand’s development on IRC. Come #wand channel on freenode network.
Check out Wand Changelog also.
