Python: Image resizing: keep proportion - add white background

Question

I would like to create a Python script to resize images, but not changing its proportions, just by adding a white background

(So, a : 500*700 px im

Answer 1

Finally did it :

def Reformat_Image(ImageFilePath):

    from PIL import Image
    image = Image.open(ImageFilePath, 'r')
    image_size = image.size
    width = image_size[0]
    height = image_size[1]

    if(width != height):
        bigside = width if width > height else height

        background = Image.new('RGBA', (bigside, bigside), (255, 255, 255, 255))
        offset = (int(round(((bigside - width) / 2), 0)), int(round(((bigside - height) / 2),0)))

        background.paste(image, offset)
        background.save('out.png')
        print("Image has been resized !")

    else:
        print("Image is already a square, it has not been resized !")

Thanks to @Blotosmetek for the suggestion, pasting a centered image is definitely simpler than creating images and combining them !

PS : If you don't have PIL yet, the library's name to install it with pip is "pillow", not PIL. But still, you use it as PIL in the code.