Create photo_to_ascii.py

Author: Avishake007

Photo To Ascii/photo_to_ascii.py

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+from PIL import Image
+
+# ascii characters used to build the output text
+CHARS = [".",".",".","1","1","1","1","1","0","0","0"]
+# convert each pixel to grayscale
+def grayify(image):
+    grayscale_image = image.convert("L")
+    return(grayscale_image)
+    
+# convert pixels to a string of ascii characters
+def pixels_to_ascii(image):
+    pixels = image.getdata()
+    characters = "".join([CHARS[pixel//23] for pixel in pixels])
+    return(characters)    
+
+def photoascii():
+
+    # attempt to open image from user-input
+    path = input("Enter a valid pathname to an image:\n")
+    try:
+        image = Image.open(path)
+    except Exception:
+        print("Invalid path")
+        return
+     
+    #Resizing of image
+    new_width=100
+    width, height = image.size
+    ratio = height/width
+    new_height = int(new_width * ratio)
+    resized_image = image.resize((new_width, new_height))
+
+    # convert image to ascii    
+    new_image_data = pixels_to_ascii(grayify(resized_image))
+    
+    pixel_count = len(new_image_data)  
+    ascii_image = "\n".join([new_image_data[index:(index+new_width)] for index in range(0, pixel_count, new_width)])
+    
+    
+    # save result to "ascii_image.txt"
+    with open("ascii_image.txt", "w") as f:
+        f.write(ascii_image)
+# run program
+if __name__=='__main__':
+    photoascii()