How to save captured image to disk, using Pygame

Question

This is my code, which starts the webcam :

import pygame.camera
import pygame.image
import sys

pygame.camera.init()

cameras = pygame.camera.list_cameras()

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Answer 1

When you call webcam.get_image it returns an RGB Surface. So just call pygame.image.save(), the file type is determined by the extension and defaults to TGA. Options are BMP, TGA, PNG, and JPEG. In this case you could append this line to your file.

pygame.image.save(img, "image.jpg")

Check out http://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/image.html and http://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/camera.html