Using PIL to fill empty image space with nearby colors (aka inpainting)

Question

I create an image with PIL:

I need to fill in the empty space (depicted as black). I coul

Answer 1

Depending on how you're deploying this application, another option might be to use the Gimp's python interface to do the image manipulation.

The doc page I linked to is oriented more towards writing GIMP plugins in python, rather than interacting with a background gimp instance from a python app, but I'm pretty sure that's also possible (it's been a while since I played with the gimp/python interface, I'm a little hazy).