media – Sounds and Images

This module describes media such as sound and images that you can use in your projects. Media are divided into submodules that indicate on which platform they are available.

media.ev3dev – Sounds and Images

EV3 MicroPython is built on top of ev3dev, which comes with a variety of image and sound files. You can access them using the classes below.

You can also use your own sound and image files by placing them in your project folder.

Image Files

class ImageFile

Paths to standard EV3 images.

Information

ACCEPT
_images/accept.png
BACKWARD
_images/backward.png
DECLINE
_images/decline.png
FORWARD
_images/forward.png
LEFT
_images/left.png
NO_GO
_images/no_go.png
QUESTION_MARK
_images/question_mark.png
RIGHT
_images/right.png
STOP_1
_images/stop_1.png
STOP_2
_images/stop_2.png
THUMBS_DOWN
_images/thumbs_down.png
THUMBS_UP
_images/thumbs_up.png
WARNING
_images/warning.png

LEGO

EV3
_images/ev3.png
EV3_ICON
_images/ev3_icon.png

Objects

TARGET
_images/target.png

Eyes

ANGRY
_images/angry.png
AWAKE
_images/awake.png
BOTTOM_LEFT
_images/bottom_left.png
BOTTOM_RIGHT
_images/bottom_right.png
CRAZY_1
_images/crazy_1.png
CRAZY_2
_images/crazy_2.png
DIZZY
_images/dizzy.png
DOWN
_images/down.png
EVIL
_images/evil.png
KNOCKED_OUT
_images/knocked_out.png
MIDDLE_LEFT
_images/middle_left.png
MIDDLE_RIGHT
_images/middle_right.png
NEUTRAL
_images/neutral.png
PINCHED_LEFT
_images/pinched_left.png
PINCHED_MIDDLE
_images/pinched_middle.png
PINCHED_RIGHT
_images/pinched_right.png
SLEEPING
_images/sleeping.png
TIRED_LEFT
_images/tired_left.png
TIRED_MIDDLE
_images/tired_middle.png
TIRED_RIGHT
_images/tired_right.png
UP
_images/up.png
WINKING
_images/winking.png

Sound Files

class SoundFile

Paths to standard EV3 sounds.

Expressions

BOING

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BOO

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CHEERING

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CRUNCHING

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CRYING

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FANFARE

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KUNG_FU

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LAUGHING_1

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LAUGHING_2

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MAGIC_WAND

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OUCH

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SHOUTING

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SMACK

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SNEEZING

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SNORING

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UH_OH

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Information

ACTIVATE

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ANALYZE

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BACKWARDS

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COLOR

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DETECTED

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DOWN

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ERROR

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ERROR_ALARM

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FLASHING

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FORWARD

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LEFT

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OBJECT

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RIGHT

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SEARCHING

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START

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STOP

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TOUCH

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TURN

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UP

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Communication

BRAVO

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EV3

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FANTASTIC

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GAME_OVER

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GO

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GOOD_JOB

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GOOD

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GOODBYE

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HELLO

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HI

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LEGO

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MINDSTORMS

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MORNING

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NO

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OKAY

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OKEY_DOKEY

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SORRY

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THANK_YOU

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YES

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Movement sounds

SPEED_DOWN

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SPEED_IDLE

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SPEED_UP

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Colors

BLACK

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BLUE

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BROWN

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GREEN

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RED

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WHITE

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YELLOW

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Mechanical

AIR_RELEASE

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AIRBRAKE

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BACKING_ALERT

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HORN_1

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HORN_2

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LASER

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MOTOR_IDLE

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MOTOR_START

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MOTOR_STOP

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RATCHET

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SONAR

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TICK_TACK

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Animal sounds

CAT_PURR

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DOG_BARK_1

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DOG_BARK_2

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DOG_GROWL

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DOG_SNIFF

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DOG_WHINE

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ELEPHANT_CALL

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INSECT_BUZZ_1

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INSECT_BUZZ_2

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INSECT_CHIRP

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SNAKE_HISS

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SNAKE_RATTLE

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T_REX_ROAR

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Numbers

ZERO

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ONE

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TWO

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THREE

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FOUR

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FIVE

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SIX

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SEVEN

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EIGHT

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NINE

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TEN

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System sounds

CLICK

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CONFIRM

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GENERAL_ALERT

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OVERPOWER

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READY

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Fonts

class Font(family=None, size=12, bold=False, monospace=False, lang=None, script=None)

Object that represents a font for writing text.

The font object will be a font that is the “best” match based on the parameters given and available fonts installed.

Parameters:
  • family (str) – The preferred font family or None to use the default value.
  • size (int) – The preferred font size. Most fonts have sizes between 6 and 24. This is the “point” size and not the same as height.
  • bold (bool) – When True, prefer bold fonts.
  • monospace (bool) – When True prefer monospaced fonts. This is useful for aligning multiple rows of text.
  • lang (str) – A language code, such as 'en' or 'zh-cn' or None to use the default language. [1]
  • script (str) – A unicode script identifier such as 'Runr' or None.
[1]

Language codes

Note: Languages depend on installed fonts. Additional language codes are possible and some listed language codes may not have a satisfactory font.

  • 'aa': Afar
  • 'af': Afrikaans
  • 'an': Aragonese
  • 'av': Avaric
  • 'ay': Aymara
  • 'az-az': Azerbaijani
  • 'be': Belarusian
  • 'bg': Bulgarian
  • 'bi': Bislama
  • 'bm': Bambara
  • 'br': Breton
  • 'bs': Bosnian
  • 'bua': Buriat
  • 'ca': Catalan
  • 'ce': Chechen
  • 'ch': Chamorro
  • 'co': Corsican
  • 'crh': Crimean
  • 'cs': Czech
  • 'csb': Kashubian
  • 'cy': Welsh
  • 'da': Danish
  • 'de': German
  • 'ee': Ewe
  • 'el': Greek
  • 'en': English
  • 'eo': Esperanto
  • 'es': Spanish
  • 'et': Estonian
  • 'eu': Basque
  • 'ff': Fulah
  • 'fi': Finnish
  • 'fil': Filipino
  • 'fj': Fijian
  • 'fo': Faroese
  • 'fr': French
  • 'fur': Friulian
  • 'fy': Western Frisian
  • 'ga': Irish
  • 'gd': Gaelic
  • 'gl': Galician
  • 'gv': Manx
  • 'ha': Hausa
  • 'haw': Hawaiian
  • 'he': Hebrew
  • 'ho': Hiri Motu
  • 'hr': Croatian
  • 'hsb': Upper Sorbian
  • 'ht': Haitian
  • 'hu': Hungarian
  • 'ia': Interlingua
  • 'id': Indonesian
  • 'ie': Interlingue
  • 'ik': Inupiaq
  • 'io': Ido
  • 'is': Icelandic
  • 'it': Italian
  • 'ja': Japanese
  • 'jv': Javanese
  • 'ki': Kikuyu
  • 'kj': Kuanyama
  • 'kl': Kalaallisut
  • 'ko': Korean
  • 'ku-tr': Kurdish
  • 'kum': Kumyk
  • 'kw': Cornish
  • 'kwm': Kwambi
  • 'la': Latin
  • 'lb': Luxembourgish
  • 'lez': Lezghian
  • 'lg': Ganda
  • 'li': Limburgan
  • 'ln': Lingala
  • 'lt': Lithuanian
  • 'lv': Latvian
  • 'mg': Malagasy
  • 'mh': Marshallese
  • 'mi': Maori
  • 'mk': Macedonian
  • 'mn-mn': Mongolian
  • 'mo': Moldavian
  • 'ms': Malay
  • 'mt': Maltese
  • 'na': Nauru
  • 'nb': Norwegian Bokmål
  • 'nds': Low German
  • 'ng': Ndonga
  • 'nl': Dutch
  • 'nn': Norwegian Nynorsk
  • 'no': Norwegian
  • 'nr': South Ndebele
  • 'nso': Northern Sotho
  • 'nv': Navajo
  • 'ny': Chichewa
  • 'oc': Occitan
  • 'om': Oromo
  • 'os': Ossetian
  • 'pap-an': Papiamento, Netherlands Antilles
  • 'pap-aw': Papiamento, Aruba
  • 'pl': Polish
  • 'pt': Portuguese
  • 'qu': Quechua
  • 'quz': Cusco Quechua
  • 'rm': Romansh
  • 'rn': Rundi
  • 'ro': Romanian
  • 'ru': Russian
  • 'rw': Kinyarwanda
  • 'sc': Sardinian
  • 'sco': Scots
  • 'se': Northern Sami
  • 'sel': Selkup
  • 'sg': Sango
  • 'sk': Slovak
  • 'sl': Slovenian
  • 'sm': Samoan
  • 'sma': Southern Sami
  • 'smj': Lule Sami
  • 'smn': Inari Sami
  • 'sms': Skolt Sami
  • 'sn': Shona
  • 'so': Somali
  • 'sq': Albanian
  • 'sr': Serbian
  • 'ss': Swati
  • 'st': Southern Sotho
  • 'su': Sundanese
  • 'sv': Swedish
  • 'sw': Swahili
  • 'tk': Turkmen
  • 'tl': Tagalog
  • 'tn': Tswana
  • 'to': Tonga
  • 'tr': Turkish
  • 'ts': Tsonga
  • 'ty': Tahitian
  • 'uk': Ukrainian
  • 'uz': Uzbek
  • 'vo': Volapük
  • 'vot': Votic
  • 'wa': Walloon
  • 'wen': Sorbian
  • 'wo': Wolof
  • 'xh': Xhosa
  • 'yap': Yapese
  • 'yi': Yiddish
  • 'za': Zhuang
  • 'zh-cn': Chinese, China
  • 'zh-sg': Chinese, Singapore
  • 'zh-tw': Chinese, Taiwan
  • 'zu': Zulu
DEFAULT = Font('Lucida', 12)

The default font.

family

Gets the family name of the font.

style

Gets a string describing the font style.

Can be “Regular” or “Bold”.

width

Gets the width of the widest character of the font.

height

Gets the height of the font.

text_width(text)

Gets the width of the text when the text is drawn using this font.

Parameters:text (str) – The text.
Returns:The width in pixels.
Return type:int
text_height(text)

Gets the height of the text when the text is drawn using this font.

Parameters:text (str) – The text.
Returns:The height in pixels.
Return type:int

Exploring more fonts

Behind the scenes, Pybricks uses Fontconfig for fonts. The Fontconfig command line tools can be used to explore available fonts in more detail. To do so, go to the ev3dev device browser, right click on your EV3 brick, and click Open SSH Terminal. Then you can enter one of these commands:

# List available font families.
fc-list :scalable=false family
# Perform lookup similar to Font.DEFAULT
fc-match :scalable=false:dpi=119:family=Lucida:size=12
# Perform lookup similar to Font(size=24,lang=zh-cn)
fc-match :scalable=false:dpi=119:size=24:lang=zh-cn

Pybricks only allows the use of bitmap fonts (scalable=false) and the screen on the EV3 has 119 pixels per inch (dpi=119).

Image Manipulation

Instead of drawing directly on the EV3 screen, you can make and interact with image files using the Image class given below.

class Image(source, sub=False)

Object representing a graphics image. This can either be an in-memory copy of an image or the image displayed on a screen.

Parameters:
  • source (str or Image) –

    The source of the image.

    If source is a string, then the image will be loaded from the file path given by the string. Only .png files are supported. As a special case, if the string is _screen_, the image will be configured to draw directly on the screen.

    If an Image is given, the new object will contain a copy of the source image object.

  • sub (bool) –

    If sub is True, then the image object will act as a sub-image of the source image (this only works if the type of source is Image and not when it is a str).

    Additional keyword arguments x1, y1, x2, y2 are needed when sub=True. These specify the top-left and bottom-right coordinates in the source image that will be used as the bounds for the sub-image.

static empty(width=<screen width>, height=<screen height>)

Creates a new empty Image object.

Parameters:
  • width (int) – The width of the image in pixels.
  • height (int) – The height of the image in pixels.
Returns:

A new image with all pixels set to Color.WHITE.

Return type:

Image

Raises:
  • TypeErrorwidth or height is not a number.
  • ValueErrorwidth or height is less than 1.
  • RuntimeError – There was a problem allocating a new image.

Drawing text

There are two ways to draw text on images. draw_text() lets text be placed precisely on the image or print() can be used to automatically print text on a new line.

draw_text(x, y, text, text_color=Color.BLACK, background_color=None)

Draws text on this image.

The most recent font set using set_font() will be used or Font.DEFAULT if no font has been set yet.

Parameters:
  • x (int) – The x-axis value where the left side of the text will start.
  • y (int) – The y-axis value where the top of the text will start.
  • text (str) – The text to draw.
  • text_color (Color) – The color used for drawing the text.
  • background_color (Color) – The color used to fill the rectangle behind the text or None for transparent background.
print(*args, sep=' ', end='\n')

Prints a line of text on this image.

This method works like the builtin print() function, but it writes on this image instead.

You can set the font using set_font(). If no font has been set, Font.DEFAULT will be used. The text is always printed used black text with a white background.

Unlike the builtin print(), the text does not wrap if it is too wide to fit on this image. It just gets cut off. But if the text would go off of the bottom of this image, the entire image is scrolled up and the text is printed in the new blank area at the bottom of this image.

Parameters:
  • * (object) – Zero or more objects to print.
  • sep (str) – Separator that will be placed between each object that is printed.
  • end (str) – End of line that will be printed after the last object.
set_font(font)

Sets the font used for writing on this image.

The font is used for both draw_text() and print().

Parameters:font (Font) – The font to use.

Drawing images

A copy of another image can be drawn on an image. Also consider using sub-images to copy part of an image.

draw_image(x, y, source, transparent=None)

Draws the source image on this image.

Parameters:
  • x (int) – The x-axis value where the left side of the image will start.
  • y (int) – The y-axis value where the top of the image will start.
  • source (Image or str) – The source Image. If the argument is a string, then the source image is loaded from file.
  • transparent (Color) – The color of image to treat as transparent or None for no transparency.

Drawing shapes

These are the methods to draw basic shapes, including points, lines, rectangles and circles.

draw_pixel(x, y, color=Color.BLACK)

Draws a single pixel on this image.

Parameters:
  • x (int) – The x coordinate of the pixel.
  • y (int) – The y coordinate of the pixel.
  • color (Color) – The color of the pixel.
draw_line(x1, y1, x2, y2, width=1, color=Color.BLACK)

Draws a line on this image.

Parameters:
  • x1 (int) – The x coordinate of the starting point of the line.
  • y1 (int) – The y coordinate of the starting point of the line.
  • x2 (int) – The x coordinate of the ending point of the line.
  • y2 (int) – The y coordinate of the ending point of the line.
  • width (int) – The width of the line in pixels.
  • color (Color) – The color of the line.
draw_box(x1, y1, x2, y2, r=0, fill=False, color=Color.BLACK)

Draws a box on this image.

Parameters:
  • x1 (int) – The x coordinate of the left side of the box.
  • y1 (int) – The y coordinate of the top of the box.
  • x2 (int) – The x coordinate of the right side of the box.
  • y2 (int) – The y coordinate of the bottom of the box.
  • r (int) – The radius of the corners of the box.
  • fill (bool) – If True, the box will be filled with color, otherwise only the outline of the box will be drawn.
  • color (Color) – The color of the box.
draw_circle(x, y, r, fill=False, color=Color.BLACK)

Draws a circle on this image.

Parameters:
  • x (int) – The x coordinate of the center of the circle.
  • y (int) – The y coordinate of the center of the circle.
  • r (int) – The radius of the circle.
  • fill (bool) – If True, the circle will be filled with color, otherwise only the circumference will be drawn.
  • color (Color) – The color of the circle.

Image properties

width

Gets the width of this image in pixels.

height

Gets the height of this image in pixels.

Replacing the entire image

clear()

Clears this image. All pixels on this image will be set to Color.WHITE.

load_image(source)

Clears this image, then draws the source image centered in this image.

Parameters:source (Image or str) – The source Image. If the argument is a string, then the source image is loaded from file.

Saving the image

save(filename)

Saves this image as a .png file.

Parameters:

filename (str) – The path to the file to be saved.

Raises:
  • TypeErrorfilename is not a string.
  • OSError – There was a problem saving the file.