PIL: Thumbnail and end up with a square image

Question

Calling

image = Image.open(data)
image.thumbnail((36,36), Image.NEAREST)

will maintain the aspect ratio. But I need to end up displaying th

Answer 1

Update of Cesar Canassa's answer.

This will create a thumbnail of image.jpg as image_thumb.jpg:

from PIL import Image, ImageOps
fname = 'image.jpg'
size = (48,48)
thumb = ImageOps.fit(Image.open(fname), size, Image.ANTIALIAS)
thumb.save('{}_thumb.jpg'.format(fname[:fname.rfind('.')]), "JPEG")