Importing images from a directory (Python) to list or dictionary [closed]

Question

I am trying to import all the images inside a directory (the directory location is known).

path = /home/user/mydirectory 

I already know a way of finding out the length of the directory.

What I'm not sure about is how I can import the images (using PIL/Pillow) into either a list or a dictionary, so they can be properly manipulated.

Answer 1

I'd start by using glob:

from PIL import Image import glob image_list = [] for filename in glob.glob('yourpath/*.gif'): #assuming gif     im=Image.open(filename)     image_list.append(im) 

then do what you need to do with your list of images (image_list).

Answer 2

from PIL import Image import os, os.path  imgs = [] path = "/home/tony/pictures" valid_images = [".jpg",".gif",".png",".tga"] for f in os.listdir(path):     ext = os.path.splitext(f)[1]     if ext.lower() not in valid_images:         continue     imgs.append(Image.open(os.path.join(path,f)))