How do I close an image opened in Pillow?

Question

I have a python file with the Pillow library imported. I can open an image with

Image.open(test.png)

But how do I close that image? I'm not using Pillow to edit the image, just to show the image and allow the user to choose to save it or delete it.

Answer 1

With Image.close().

You can also do it in a with block:

with Image.open('test.png') as test_image:
    do_things(test_image)

An example of using Image.close():

test = Image.open('test.png')
test.close()