xpm

A native python library for producing XPM files from raster images. For parsing XPM files I recommend PIL.

Usage

Command line

python -m xpm image.bpm > image.xpm

Though for this use case you might prefer imagemagick.

Python code

Using PIL:

image = PIL.Image.open(args.file)
xpm_string = pil_save(image, variable_name=args.variable_name)
print(xpm_string)

Given a dictionary mapping pixels to RGB colours:

black = (0, 0, 0)
white = (255, 255, 255)
image = [
      [black, white, black],
      [white, black, white],
      [black, white, black]]
pixels = dict( ((i, j), colour)
    for j, row in enumerate(image)
        for i, colour in enumerate(row))
xpm_im = xpm.XpmImage((3, 3), pixels).make_image