Core Library Definitions

The term_image.image subpackage defines the following:

Convenience Functions

These functions automatically detect the best supported render style for the current terminal.

Since all classes define a common interface, any operation supported by one image class can be performed on any other image class, except stated otherwise.

term_image.image.AutoImage(image, *, width=None, height=None, scale=(1.0, 1.0))

Convenience function for creating an image instance from a PIL image instance.

Returns

An instance of a subclass of BaseImage.

Return type

term_image.image.common.BaseImage

Same arguments and raised exceptions as the BaseImage class constructor.

term_image.image.from_file(filepath, **kwargs)

Convenience function for creating an image instance from an image file.

Returns

An instance of a subclass of BaseImage.

Return type

term_image.image.common.BaseImage

Same arguments and raised exceptions as BaseImage.from_file().

term_image.image.from_url(url, **kwargs)

Convenience function for creating an image instance from an image URL.

Returns

An instance of a subclass of BaseImage.

Return type

term_image.image.common.BaseImage

Same arguments and raised exceptions as BaseImage.from_url().

Image Classes

Class Hierachy:

class term_image.image.ImageSource(value)

Bases: enum.Enum

Image source type.

Note

The values of the enumeration members are implementation details and might change at anytime. Any comparison should be by identity of the members themselves.

FILE_PATH = <hidden>

The instance was derived from a path to a local image file.

PIL_IMAGE = <hidden>

The instance was derived from a PIL image instance.

URL = <hidden>

The instance was derived from an image URL.


Note

It’s allowed to set properties for animated images on non-animated ones, the values are simply ignored.

class term_image.image.BaseImage(image, *, width=None, height=None, scale=(1.0, 1.0))

Bases: abc.ABC

Base of all render styles.

Parameters

  • image (PIL.Image.Image) – Source image.

  • width (Optional[int]) – Horizontal dimension of the image, in columns.

  • height (Optional[int]) – Vertical dimension of the image, in lines.

  • scale (Tuple[float, float]) – The fraction of the size on respective axes, to render the image with.

Raises

  • TypeError – An argument is of an inappropriate type.

  • ValueError – An argument is of an appropriate type but has an unexpected/invalid value.

Propagates exceptions raised by set_size(), if width or height is given.

Note

  • width or height is the exact number of columns or lines that’ll be used to draw the image (assuming the scale equal 1), regardless of the currently set font ratio.

  • If neither is given or both are None, the size is automatically determined when the image is to be rendered, such that it optimally fits into the terminal.

  • The image size is multiplied by the scale on respective axes before the image is rendered.

  • For animated images, the seek position is initialized to the current seek position of the given image.

Attention

This class cannot be directly instantiated. Image instances should be created from its subclasses.

property closed

Instance finalization status

Return type

bool

property frame_duration

Duration (in seconds) of a single frame for animated images

Setting this on non-animated images is simply ignored, no exception is raised.

Return type

float

property height

The unscaled height of the image.

None when the image size is unset.

Settable values:

  • None: Sets the image size to an automatically calculated one, based on the current terminal size.

  • A positive int: Sets the image height to the given value and the width proportionally.

Return type

int

property is_animated

True if the image is animated. Otherwise, False.

property original_size

Size of the source image (in pixels)

property n_frames: int

The number of frames in the image

Return type

int

property rendered_height

The scaled height of the image.

Also the exact number of lines that the drawn image will occupy in a terminal.

Return type

int

property rendered_size

The scaled size of the image.

Also the exact number of columns and lines (respectively) that the drawn image will occupy in a terminal.

Return type

Tuple[int, int]

property rendered_width

The scaled width of the image.

Also the exact number of columns that the drawn image will occupy in a terminal.

Return type

int

property scale

Image scale

Settable values are:

  • A scale value; sets both axes.

  • A tuple of two scale values; sets (x, y) respectively.

A scale value is a float in the range 0.0 < value <= 1.0.

Return type

Tuple[float, float]

property scale_x

Horizontal scale

A scale value is a float in the range 0.0 < x <= 1.0.

Return type

float

property scale_y

Vertical scale

A scale value is a float in the range 0.0 < y <= 1.0.

Return type

float

property size

The unscaled size of the image.

None when the image size is unset.

Setting this to None unsets the image size (so that it’s automatically calculated whenever the image is rendered) and resets the recognized advanced sizing options to their defaults.

This is multiplied by the scale on respective axes before the image is rendered.

Return type

Tuple[int, int]

property source

The source from which the instance was initialized.

Return type

Union[PIL.Image.Image, str]

property source_type

The kind of source from which the instance was initialized.

Return type

ImageSource

property width

The unscaled width of the image.

None when the image size is unset.

Settable values:

  • None: Sets the image size to an automatically calculated one, based on the current terminal size.

  • A positive int: Sets the image width to the given value and the height proportionally.

Return type

int

close()

Finalizes the instance and releases external resources.

  • In most cases, it’s not neccesary to explicity call this method, as it’s automatically called when the instance is garbage-collected.

  • This method can be safely called mutiple times.

  • If the instance was initialized with a PIL image, the PIL image is never finalized.

draw(h_align=None, pad_width=None, v_align=None, pad_height=None, alpha=0.1568627450980392, *, scroll=False, animate=True, repeat=- 1, cached=100, check_size=True, **style)

Draws an image to standard output.

Parameters

  • h_align (Optional[str]) – Horizontal alignment (“left” / “<”, “center” / “|” or “right” / “>”). Default: center.

  • pad_width (Optional[int]) –

    Number of columns within which to align the image.

    • Excess columns are filled with spaces.

    • Must not be greater than the available terminal width.

    • Default: terminal width, minus horizontal allowance.

  • v_align (Optional[str]) – Vertical alignment (“top”/”^”, “middle”/”-” or “bottom”/”_”). Default: middle.

  • pad_height (Optional[int]) –

    Number of lines within which to align the image.

    • Excess lines are filled with spaces.

    • Must not be greater than the available terminal height, for animations.

    • Default: terminal height, minus vertical allowance.

  • alpha (Optional[float, str]) –

    Transparency setting.

    • If None, transparency is disabled (alpha channel is removed).

    • If a float (0.0 <= x < 1.0), specifies the alpha ratio above which pixels are taken as opaque. (Applies to only text-based render styles).

    • If a string, specifies a color to replace transparent background with. Can be:

      • ”#” -> The terminal’s default background color (or black, if undetermined) is used.

      • A hex color e.g ffffff, 7faa52.

  • scroll (bool) –

    Only applies to non-animations. If True:

  • animate (bool) – If False, disable animation i.e draw only the current frame of an animated image.

  • repeat (int) – The number of times to go over all frames of an animated image. A negative value implies infinite repetition.

  • cached (Union[bool, int]) –

    Determines if rendered frames of an animated image will be cached (for speed up of subsequent renders of the same frame) or not.

    • If bool, it directly sets if the frames will be cached or not.

    • If int, caching is enabled only if the framecount of the image is less than or equal to the given number.

  • check_size (bool) – If False, does not perform size validation for non-animations.

  • style (Any) – Style-specific parameters. See each subclass for it’s own usage.

Raises

  • If set_size() was directly used to set the image size, the values of the fit_to_width, h_allow and v_allow arguments (when set_size() was called) are taken into consideration during size validation, with fit_to_width applying to only non-animations.

  • If the size was set via another means or the size is unset, the default values of those parameters are used.

  • If the image size was set with the fit_to_width parameter of set_size() set to True, then setting scroll is unnecessary.

  • animate, repeat and cached apply to animated images only. They are simply ignored for non-animated images.

  • For animations (i.e animated images with animate set to True):

    • scroll is ignored.

    • Image size and padding height are always validated, if set or given.

    • with the exception of native animations provided by some render styles.

  • Animations, by default, are infinitely looped and can be terminated with Ctrl+C (SIGINT), raising KeyboardInterrupt.

classmethod from_file(filepath, **kwargs)

Creates an instance from an image file.

Parameters

  • filepath (str) – Relative/Absolute path to an image file.

  • kwargs (Union[None, int, Tuple[float, float]]) – Same keyword arguments as the class constructor.

Returns

A new instance.

Raises

  • TypeError – filepath is not a string.

  • FileNotFoundError – The given path does not exist.

  • IsADirectoryError – Propagated from from PIL.Image.open().

  • PIL.UnidentifiedImageError – Propagated from from PIL.Image.open().

Return type

term_image.image.common.BaseImage

Also Propagates exceptions raised or propagated by the class constructor.

classmethod from_url(url, **kwargs)

Creates an instance from an image URL.

Parameters

  • url (str) – URL of an image file.

  • kwargs (Union[None, int, Tuple[float, float]]) – Same keyword arguments as the class constructor.

Returns

A new instance.

Raises

  • TypeError – url is not a string.

  • ValueError – The URL is invalid.

  • term_image.exceptions.URLNotFoundError – The URL does not exist.

  • PIL.UnidentifiedImageError – Propagated from PIL.Image.open().

Return type

term_image.image.common.BaseImage

Also propagates connection-related exceptions from requests.get() and exceptions raised or propagated by the class constructor.

Note

This method creates a temporary image file, but only after a successful initialization.

Proper clean-up is guaranteed except maybe in very rare cases.

To ensure 100% guarantee of clean-up, use the object as a context manager.

abstract classmethod is_supported()

Returns True if the render style or graphics protocol implemented by the invoking class is supported by the active terminal. Otherwise, False.

Attention

Support checks for most (if not all) render styles require querying the active terminal, though only the first time they’re executed.

Hence, it’s advisable to perform all neccesary support checks (call is_supported() on required subclasses) at an early stage of a program, before user input is required.

seek(pos)

Changes current image frame.

Parameters

pos (int) – New frame number.

Raises

  • TypeError – An argument is of an inappropriate type.

  • ValueError – An argument is of an appropriate type but has an unexpected/invalid value.

Frame numbers start from 0 (zero).

classmethod set_render_method(method=None)

Sets the render method used by the instances of subclasses providing multiple render methods.

Parameters

method (Optional[str]) – The render method to be set or None for a reset (case-insensitive).

Raises

  • TypeError – method is not a string or None.

  • ValueError – the given method is not implmented by the invoking class (or class of the invoking instance).

See the Render Methods section in the description of the subclasses that implement such for their specific usage.

If called via:

  • a class, sets the class-wide render method.

  • an instance, sets the instance-specific render method.

If method is None and this method is called via:

  • a class, the class-wide render method is reset to the default.

  • an instance, the instance-specific render method is removed, so that it uses the class-wide render method thenceforth.

Any instance without a specific render method set uses the class-wide render method.

Note

method = None is always allowed, even if the render style doesn’t implement multiple render methods.

set_size(width=None, height=None, h_allow=0, v_allow=2, *, maxsize=None, fit_to_width=False, fit_to_height=False)

Sets the image size with extended control.

Parameters

  • width (Optional[int]) – Horizontal dimension of the image, in columns.

  • height (Optional[int]) – Vertical dimension of the image, in lines.

  • h_allow (int) – Horizontal allowance i.e minimum number of columns to leave unused.

  • v_allow (int) – Vertical allowance i.e minimum number of lines to leave unused.

  • maxsize (Optional[Tuple[int, int]]) – If given, as (columns, lines), it’s used instead of the terminal size.

  • fit_to_width (bool) – Only used with automatic sizing. See description below.

  • fit_to_height (bool) – Only used with automatic sizing. See description below.

Raises

  • TypeError – An argument is of an inappropriate type.

  • ValueError – An argument is of an appropriate type but has an unexpected/invalid value.

  • ValueError – Both width and height are specified.

  • ValueError – fit_to_width or fit_to_height is True when width, height or maxsize is given.

  • ValueError – The available size is too small for automatic sizing.

  • term_image.exceptions.InvalidSizeError – maxsize is given and the resulting size will not fit into it.

If neither width nor height is given or anyone given is None, automatic sizing applies. In such a case, if:

Important

  1. fit_to_width and fit_to_height are mutually exclusive. Only one can be True at a time.

  2. Neither fit_to_width nor fit_to_height may be True when width, height or maxsize is given.

  3. Be careful when setting fit_to_height to True as it might result in the image’s rendered width being larger than the terminal width (or maxsize[0]) because draw() will (by default) raise term_image.exceptions.InvalidSizeError if such is the case.

Vertical allowance does not apply when fit_to_width is True.
horizontal allowance does not apply when fit_to_height is True.

Allowances are ignored when maxsize is given.

fit_to_width might be set to True to set the image size for vertically-oriented images (i.e images with height > width) such that the drawn image spans more columns but the terminal window has to be scrolled to view the entire image.

Image formatting and all size validation recognize and respect the values of the fit_to_width, h_allow and v_allow parameters, until the size is re-set or unset.

fit_to_height is only provided for completeness, it should probably be used only when the image will not be drawn to the current terminal. The value of this parameter is not recognized by any other method or operation.

Note

The size is checked to fit in only when maxsize is given along with width or height because draw() is generally not the means of drawing such an image and all rendering methods don’t perform any sort of size validation.

If the validation is not desired, specify only one of maxsize and width or height, not both.

tell()

Returns the current image frame number.


class term_image.image.GraphicsImage(image, **kwargs)

Bases: term_image.image.common.BaseImage

Base of all render styles using terminal graphics protocols.

Raises

term_image.exceptions.StyleError – The active terminal doesn’t support the render style.

See BaseImage for the description of the constructor.

Attention

This class cannot be directly instantiated. Image instances should be created from its subclasses.


class term_image.image.TextImage(image, *, width=None, height=None, scale=(1.0, 1.0))

Bases: term_image.image.common.BaseImage

Base of all render styles using ASCII/Unicode symbols [with ANSI color codes].

See BaseImage for the description of the constructor.

Important

Instantiation of subclasses is always allowed, even if the current terminal does not [fully] support the render style.

To check if the render style is fully supported in the current terminal, use is_supported().

Attention

This class cannot be directly instantiated. Image instances should be created from its subclasses.


class term_image.image.BlockImage(image, *, width=None, height=None, scale=(1.0, 1.0))

Bases: term_image.image.common.TextImage

A render style using unicode half blocks and ANSI 24-bit colour escape codes.

See TextImage for the description of the constructor.

classmethod is_supported()

Returns True if the render style or graphics protocol implemented by the invoking class is supported by the active terminal. Otherwise, False.

Attention

Support checks for most (if not all) render styles require querying the active terminal, though only the first time they’re executed.

Hence, it’s advisable to perform all neccesary support checks (call is_supported() on required subclasses) at an early stage of a program, before user input is required.


class term_image.image.ITerm2Image(image, **kwargs)

Bases: term_image.image.common.GraphicsImage

A render style using the iTerm2 inline image protocol.

See GraphicsImage for the complete description of the constructor.

Render Methods:

ITerm2Image provides two methods of rendering images, namely:

LINES (default)

Renders an image line-by-line i.e the image is evenly split across the number of lines it should occupy.

Pros:

  • Good for use cases where it might be required to trim some lines of the image.

Cons:

  • Image drawing is very slow on iTerm2 due to the terminal emulator’s performance.

WHOLE

Renders an image all at once i.e the entire image data is encoded into one line of the rendered output, such that the entire image is drawn once by the terminal and still occupies the correct amount of lines and columns.

Pros:

  • Render results are more compact (i.e less in character count) than with the lines method since the entire image is encoded at once.

  • Image drawing is faster than with lines on most terminals.

  • Smoother animations.

Cons:

  • This method currently doesn’t work well on iTerm2 and WezTerm when the image height is greater than the terminal height.

Note

The LINES method is the default only because it works properly in all cases, it’s more advisable to use the WHOLE method except when the image height is greater than the terminal height or when trimming the image is required.

The render method can be set with set_render_method() using the names specified above.

Format Specification

See Image Format Specification.

[method] [ m {0 | 1} ] [ c {0-9} ]

  • method: Render method override.

    Can be one of:

    • L: LINES render method (current frame only, for animated images).

    • W: WHOLE render method (current frame only, for animated images).

    • N: Native animation. Ignored when used with non-animated images, WEBP images or ImageIterator.

    Default: Current effective render method of the image.

  • m: Cell content inter-mix policy (Only supported in WezTerm, ignored otherwise).

    • If the character after m is:

      • 0, contents of cells in the region covered by the image will be erased.

      • 1, the opposite, thereby allowing existing cell contents to show under transparent areas of the image.

    • If absent, defaults to m0.

    • e.g m0, m1.

  • c: ZLIB compression level, for images re-encoded in PNG format.

    • 1 -> best speed, 9 -> best compression, 0 -> no compression.

    • This results in a trade-off between render time and data size/draw speed.

    • If absent, defaults to c4.

    • e.g c0, c9.

Attention

Currently supported terminal emulators include:

JPEG_QUALITY: int = -1

  • x < 0, JPEG encoding is disabled.

  • 0 <= x <= 95, JPEG encoding is used, with the specified quality, for most non-transparent renders (at the cost of image quality).

Only applies when not reading directly from file.

By default, images are encoded in the PNG format (when not reading directly from file) but in some cases, higher compression might be desired. Also, JPEG encoding is significantly faster and can be useful to improve non-native animation performance.

Hint

The transparency status of some images can not be correctly determined in an efficient way at render time. To ensure the JPEG format is always used for a re-encoded render, disable transparency or set a background color.

NATIVE_ANIM_MAXSIZE: int = 2097152

Maximum size (in bytes) of image data for native animation.

TermImageWarning is issued (and shown only the first time, except a filter is set to do otherwise) if the image data size for a native animation is above this value.
This value can be altered but should be done with caution to avoid excessive memory usage.
READ_FROM_FILE: bool = True

  • True, image data is read directly from file when possible and no image manipulation is required.

  • False, images are always loaded and re-encoded, in the PNG format by default.

This is an optimization to reduce render times and is only applicable to the WHOLE render method, since the the LINES method inherently requires image manipulation.

Note

This setting does not affect animations, native animations are always read from file when possible and frames of non-native animations have to be loaded and re-encoded.

draw(*args, method=None, mix=False, compress=4, native=False, stall_native=True, **kwargs)

Draws an image to standard output.

Extends the common interface with style-specific parameters.

Parameters

  • args – Positional arguments passed up the inheritance chain.

  • method (Optional[str]) – Render method override. If None or not given, the current effective render method of the instance is used.

  • mix (bool) –

    Cell content inter-mix policy (Only supported in WezTerm, ignored otherwise). If:

    • False, contents of cells within the region covered by the image are erased.

    • True, the opposite, thereby allowing existing text or image pixels to show under transparent areas of the image.

  • compress (int) –

    ZLIB compression level, for images re-encoded in PNG format.

    An integer between 0 and 9: 1 -> best speed, 9 -> best compression, 0 -> no compression. This results in a trade-off between render time and data size/draw speed.

  • native (bool) –

    If True, use native animation (if supported).

    • Ignored for non-animations.

    • animate must be True.

    • alpha, repeat, cached and style do not apply.

    • Always loops infinitely.

    • No control over frame duration.

    • Not all animated image formats are supported e.g WEBP.

    • The limitations of the WHOLE render method also apply.

    • Normal restrictions for rendered/padding height of animations do not apply.

  • stall_native (bool) –

    Native animation execution control. If:

    • True, block until SIGINT (Ctrl+C) is recieved.

    • False, return as soon as the image is transmitted.

  • kwargs – Keyword arguments passed up the inheritance chain.

Raises

term_image.exceptions.ITerm2ImageError – Native animation is not supported.

See the draw() method of the parent classes for full details, including the description of other parameters.

classmethod is_supported()

Returns True if the render style or graphics protocol implemented by the invoking class is supported by the active terminal. Otherwise, False.

Attention

Support checks for most (if not all) render styles require querying the active terminal, though only the first time they’re executed.

Hence, it’s advisable to perform all neccesary support checks (call is_supported() on required subclasses) at an early stage of a program, before user input is required.


class term_image.image.KittyImage(image, **kwargs)

Bases: term_image.image.common.GraphicsImage

A render style using the Kitty terminal graphics protocol.

See GraphicsImage for the complete description of the constructor.

Render Methods

KittyImage provides two methods of rendering images, namely:

LINES (default)

Renders an image line-by-line i.e the image is evenly split across the number of lines it should occupy.

Pros:

  • Good for use cases where it might be required to trim some lines of the image.

WHOLE

Renders an image all at once i.e the entire image data is encoded into one line of the rendered output, such that the entire image is drawn once by the terminal and still occupies the correct amount of lines and columns.

Pros:

  • Render results are more compact (i.e less in character count) than with the LINES method since the entire image is encoded at once.

The render method can be set with set_render_method() using the names specified above.

Format Specification

See Image Format Specification.

[method] [ z [index] ] [ m {0 | 1} ] [ c {0-9} ]

  • method: Render method override.

    Can be one of:

    • L: LINES render method (current frame only, for animated images).

    • W: WHOLE render method (current frame only, for animated images).

    Default: Current effective render method of the image.

  • z: Image/Text stacking order.

    • index: Image z-index. An integer in the signed 32-bit range.

      Images drawn in the same location with different z-index values will be blended if they are semi-transparent. If index is:

      • >= 0, the image will be drawn above text.

      • < 0, the image will be drawn below text.

      • < -(2**31)/2, the image will be drawn below cells with non-default background color.

    • z without index is currently only used internally.

    • If absent, defaults to z0 i.e z-index zero.

    • e.g z0, z1, z-1, z2147483647, z-2147483648.

  • m: Image/Text inter-mixing policy.

    • If the character after m is:

      • 0, text within the region covered by the image will be erased, though text can be inter-mixed with the image after it’s been drawn.

      • 1, text within the region covered by the image will NOT be erased.

    • If absent, defaults to m0.

    • e.g m0, m1.

  • c: ZLIB compression level.

    • 1 -> best speed, 9 -> best compression, 0 -> no compression.

    • This results in a trade-off between render time and data size/draw speed.

    • If absent, defaults to c4.

    • e.g c0, c9.

Attention

Currently supported terminal emulators include:

draw(*args, method=None, z_index=0, mix=False, compress=4, **kwargs)

Draws an image to standard output.

Extends the common interface with style-specific parameters.

Parameters

  • args – Positional arguments passed up the inheritance chain.

  • method (Optional[str]) – Render method override. If None or not given, the current effective render method of the instance is used.

  • z_index (Optional[int]) –

    The stacking order of images and text for non-animations.

    Images drawn in the same location with different z-index values will be blended if they are semi-transparent. If z_index is:

    • >= 0, the image will be drawn above text.

    • < 0, the image will be drawn below text.

    • < -(2**31)/2, the image will be drawn below cells with non-default background color.

    • None, internal use only, mentioned for the sake of completeness.

    To inter-mixing text with an image, see the mix parameter.

  • mix (bool) –

    Image/Text inter-mixing policy for non-animations. If:

    • True, text within the region covered by the image will NOT be erased.

    • False, text within the region covered by the image will be erased, though text can be inter-mixed with the image after it’s been drawn.

  • compress (int) –

    ZLIB compression level.

    An integer between 0 and 9: 1 -> best speed, 9 -> best compression, 0 -> no compression. This results in a trade-off between render time and data size/draw speed.

  • kwargs – Keyword arguments passed up the inheritance chain.

See the draw() method of the parent classes for full details, including the description of other parameters.

classmethod is_supported()

Returns True if the render style or graphics protocol implemented by the invoking class is supported by the active terminal. Otherwise, False.

Attention

Support checks for most (if not all) render styles require querying the active terminal, though only the first time they’re executed.

Hence, it’s advisable to perform all neccesary support checks (call is_supported() on required subclasses) at an early stage of a program, before user input is required.


class term_image.image.TermImage(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: term_image.image.block.BlockImage

Deprecated since version 0.4.0: Replaced by BlockImage.


class term_image.image.ImageIterator(image, repeat=- 1, format='', cached=100)

Bases: object

Effeciently iterate over rendered frames of an animated image

Parameters

  • image (BaseImage) – Animated image.

  • repeat (int) – The number of times to go over the entire image. A negative value implies infinite repetition.

  • format (str) – The format specifier to be used to format the rendered frames (default: auto).

  • cached (Union[bool, int]) –

    Determines if the rendered frames will be cached (for speed up of subsequent renders) or not.

    • If bool, it directly sets if the frames will be cached or not.

    • If int, caching is enabled only if the framecount of the image is less than or equal to the given number.

Raises

  • TypeError – An argument is of an inappropriate type.

  • ValueError – An argument is of an appropriate type but has an unexpected/invalid value.

  • term_image.exceptions.StyleError – Invalid style-specific format specifier.

  • If repeat equals 1, caching is disabled.

  • The iterator has immediate response to changes in the image size and scale.

  • If the image size is unset, it’s automatically calculated per frame.

  • The number of the last yielded frame is set as the image’s seek position.

  • Directly adjusting the seek position of the image doesn’t affect iteration. Use ImageIterator.seek() instead.

  • After the iterator is exhausted, the underlying image is set to frame 0.

property loop_no

Iteration repeat countdown

Changes on the first iteration of each loop, except for infinite iteration where it’s always -1.

close()

Closes the iterator and releases resources used.

Does not reset the frame number of the underlying image.

Note

This method is automatically called when the iterator is exhausted or garbage-collected.

seek(pos)

Sets the frame number to be yielded on the next iteration without affecting the repeat count.

Parameters

pos (int) – Next frame number.

Raises

  • TypeError – An argument is of an inappropriate type.

  • ValueError – An argument is of an appropriate type but has an unexpected/invalid value.

  • term_image.exceptions.TermImageError – Iteration has not yet started or the iterator is exhausted/closed.

Frame numbers start from 0 (zero).


Context Management Protocol Support

BaseImage instances are context managers i.e they can be used with the with statement as in:

with from_url(url) as image:
    ...

Using an instance as a context manager more surely guarantees object finalization (i.e clean-up/release of resources), especially for instances with URL sources (see BaseImage.from_url()).

Iteration Support

Animated BaseImage instances are iterable i.e they can be used with the for statement (and other means of iteration such as unpacking) as in:

for frame in from_file("animated.gif"):
    ...

Subsequent frames of the image are yielded on subsequent iterations.

Note

  • iter(anim_image) returns an ImageIterator instance with a repeat count of 1, hence caching is disabled.

  • The frames are unformatted and transparency is enabled i.e as returned by str(image).

For more extensive or custom iteration, use ImageIterator directly.