Pythonista crashes trying to save merged photo

[ccc]

for asset in assets:
    image = asset.get_image()
    images.append(image)
    del image

[jm2466]

Thanks!!

[jm2466]

I added the del image after it is pasted into the merged image and that part appears to work. The program is now having a problem saving the merged image to the camera roll. If I instead save it to the Pythonista file system it works and is a workaround until the camera roll save is figured out. Any other thoughts on how to fix the camera roll save is greatly appreciated.

[ccc]

Do you have a GitHub repo? It is more difficult to debug English prose that it is to debug Python code.

[jm2466]

Unfortunately I do not.

But if you look at the code in my original post I added one line in the for loop to delete the image (below is the loop from that post with the del at the end)

    for im in images:
        # paste in the image at the left edge (x=0) and current offset for y
        new_im.paste(im, (0,y_offset))
        print(f'y_offset = {y_offset}')
        # increase the offset by the height of current pic
        y_offset += im.size[1]
        del im 

As mentioned that seemed to fix the issue pasting more than a few images into the new one.

This line crashes Pythonista:

    photos.save_image(new_im)

But I can save it to the Pythonista file system with the following:

    new_im.save('combined.jpg')

[ccc]

This is long shot but:

del new_img
photos.save(Image.open('combined.jpg'))

[jm2466]

Thanks. I tried that but it crashes trying to save the image to the camera roll. I can open the jpg in Pythonista and manually add it to the camera roll. Here are the lines at the end that I added:

	new_im.save('combined.jpg')
	del new_im
	photos.save_image(Image.open('combined.jpg'))

[cvp]

@jm2466 I'm in holiday, thus perhaps not able to correctly understand all (🍷🍷) but why did you not use

photos.create_image_asset(path)

instead of

photos.save_image(Image.open(path))

[jm2466]

Um... because you never told me to until now??? :) kidding of course. But honestly have no real answer to that question. Possibly because I wanted to save an in-memory image and not have to save the file locally first (at least that was the initial plan but is not where I am at with it now). Not sure if create image asset supports that (I tried passing the variable and got an error that a str is required).

I just tried your suggestion and it works - I mean it saves the locally saved combined.jpg to the camera roll. Thanks!!!

Any thoughts on how to get this to work without saving combined.jpg first???

[cvp]

@jm2466 You could always convert your PIL Image into an ui.Image and use this kind of code to save it in camera roll

# only to have an ui.Image
import ui
img = ui.Image.named('test:Bridge')

# Create a PHAsset from an ui.Image (not from a PIL Image)
from objc_util import *
import threading

NSBundle.bundleWithPath_('/System/Library/Frameworks/Photos.framework').load()
PHPhotoLibrary = ObjCClass('PHPhotoLibrary')
PHAssetChangeRequest = ObjCClass('PHAssetChangeRequest')

lib = PHPhotoLibrary.sharedPhotoLibrary()
def change_block():
    req = PHAssetChangeRequest.creationRequestForAssetFromImage_(img)
def perform_changes():
    lib.performChangesAndWait_error_(change_block, None)

t = threading.Thread(target=perform_changes)
t.start()
t.join()

[cvp]

@jm2466 this

    # 1) convert PIL Image to ui.Image
    console.hud_alert('convert PIL Image into ui.Image')
    with io.BytesIO() as bIO:
        new_im.save(bIO, 'PNG')
        ui_image = ui.Image.from_data(bIO.getvalue())
    del bIO
    # 2) Create a PHAsset from an ui.Image (not from a PIL Image)
    console.hud_alert('Create a PHAsset from an ui.Image')
    lib = PHPhotoLibrary.sharedPhotoLibrary()
    def change_block():
        req = PHAssetChangeRequest.creationRequestForAssetFromImage_(ui_image)
    def perform_changes():
        lib.performChangesAndWait_error_(change_block, None)
    t = threading.Thread(target=perform_changes)
    t.start()
    t.join()

is about (😀) 1000 x slower than

    path = 'temp.jpg'
    new_im.save(path , quality=95)
    photos.create_image_asset(path)
    os.remove(path)