Reading bmp files in Python

Question

Is there a way to read in a bmp file in Python that does not involve using PIL? PIL doesn\'t work with version 3, which is the one I have. I tried to use the Image object from g

Answer 1

Use pillow for this. After you installed it simply import it

from PIL import Image

Then you can load the BMP file

img = Image.open('path_to_file\file.bmp')

If you need the image to be a numpy array, use np.array

img = np.array(Image.open('path_to_file\file.bmp'))

The numpy array will only be 1D. Use reshape() to bring it into the right shape in case your image is RGB. For example:

np.array(Image.open('path_to_file\file.bmp')).reshape(512,512,3)