pygame The essentials Using with PIL
Example
When you have to use both PIL and Pygame because missing functionalities in both of them, you need a way to convert between Pygame Surfaces and PIL Images, preferably without writing them to the disk.
For that you can use "tostring" and "fromstring" functions provided in both libraries.
Conversion from PIL to Pygame:
strFormat = 'RGBA'
raw_str = image.tostring("raw", strFormat)
surface = pygame.image.fromstring(raw_str, image.size, strFormat)
Conversion from Pygame to PIL:
strFormat = 'RGBA'
raw_str = pygame.image.tostring(surface, strFormat, False)
image = Image.frombytes(strFormat, surface.get_size(), raw_str)
