get_image.py

"""Retrieve test image, resize it, and store under new filename."""

#
#  (C) Copyright 2021  Pavel Tisnovsky
#
#  All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
#  are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
#  which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
#  http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
#
#  Contributors:
#      Pavel Tisnovsky
#

import urllib.request

from PIL import Image

# URL to the test image
url = "https://homepages.cae.wisc.edu/~ece533/images/fruits.png"

original_filename = "fruits_.png"
resized_filename = "fruits.png"

# try to retrieve the test image from given URL
urllib.request.urlretrieve(url, original_filename)

# read image from file
img = Image.open(original_filename)

# resize it
resized = img.resize((128, 128), Image.BILINEAR)

# and store under new name
resized.save(resized_filename)