OK I think I found a workaround. Ugly, but servicable until this gets fixed in the mainline: I retrieve the share sheet image in PIL format as desired, but then convert it to to "ui" format before pushing to the clipboard. For all other uses, I have a PIL object with all the right methods.

In case anyone else runs into this, this code shows the workaround:

import importlib import importlib.util import io import ui from PIL import Image def pil2ui(pil_img): with io.BytesIO() as buffer: pil_img.save(buffer, format='PNG') return ui.Image.from_data(buffer.getvalue()) def main(): print("Starting test") # check to see if appex library is available appex_spec = importlib.util.find_spec("appex") FOUND_APPEX_LIBRARY = appex_spec is not None if FOUND_APPEX_LIBRARY: import appex import clipboard import shortcuts if appex.is_running_extension(): my_image = appex.get_image(image_type="pil") # workaround: force to 'ui' format my_new_image = pil2ui(my_image) print("Setting clipboard image") r1 = clipboard.set_image(my_new_image, format="png", jpeg_quality=1.0) print("Finished setting clipboard image") else: print("This demo is for Pythonista running in an extension") if __name__ == "__main__": main()

@mikael @ccc It's working wonders now, thank you! Just a dumb mistake as usual. Great link too!

Hello there @mikael !

I see what your saying but what you cannot see is originally (and before i fixed the duplicate streams) i had somthing similar to this:

img = Image.open('my_image.png') img.load() img_rs = img.resize((256, 256), 1) with io.BytesIO() as iodata: img_rs.save(iodata, 'png') texture=scene.Texture(ui.Image.from_data(iodata.getvalue(), ... ...

i changed it to img=img... to reduce code knowing ill never need that exact ref to original again during this loop session.reason is i place the Texture object in a cache dict and from here on is called from there 🤓🤓

##EDIT

@mikael
I also forgot to include my finally block that handles any mishaps once caching is complete..

finally: iodata.close() f.close() img.close() del img del f del iodata for x in locals(): print(x)

@Loimeee try

import photos assets = photos.get_assets() asset = photos.pick_asset(assets=assets) pil_image = photos.get_image() pil_image.show()

No, actually I did that from my Mac, using twine. Not sure if twine works in iOS/Pythonista.

Quick workaround:

import _font_cache font_name = 'Helvetica' font = ImageFont.truetype(_font_cache.get_font_path(font_name))