How to save grabbed image to user-input directory in Python

I have worked at this code:

from PIL import ImageGrab

def getnsave(event):
    widget=event.widget
    x=root.winfo_rootx()+widget.winfo_x()
    y=root.winfo_rooty()+widget.winfo_y()
    x1=x+widget.winfo_width()
    y1=y+widget.winfo_height()
    formats=[('Images (.png)','*.png'),('Images (.jpg)','*.jpg')]
    img=ImageGrab.grab().crop((x,y,x1,y1))
    f=filedialog.asksaveasfile(filetypes=(("Portable Network Graphics (*.png)", "*.png"),("All Files (*.*)", "*.*")),mode='w',defaultextension='.png')
    if f is None:
        return
    f.write(img)
    f.close()

and I'm getting this error:

TypeError: write() argument must be str, not Image

Please, help me. I understand, that after I select the directory, I need to command WHAT to save. Do You know how to do it?

Solution

To save a PIL image to a file, you have to use the Image.save method. Two things are important to make this work correctly:

The file must be opened in binary mode.

This means you have to change change the w file mode in

filedialog.asksaveasfile(filetypes=(("Portable Network Graphics (*.png)", "*.png"),
                                    ("All Files (*.*)", "*.*")),
                         mode='w',
                         defaultextension='.png')

to wb like so:

filedialog.asksaveasfile(filetypes=(("Portable Network Graphics (*.png)", "*.png"),
                                    ("All Files (*.*)", "*.*")),
                         mode='wb',
                         defaultextension='.png')

PIL needs to know in which format you want to save the image. You can extract the format from the file extension like so:
```
filename = f.name
extension = filename.rsplit('.', 1)[-1]
```

Putting all of this together:

f = filedialog.asksaveasfile(filetypes=(("Portable Network Graphics (*.png)", "*.png"),
                                        ("All Files (*.*)", "*.*")),
                             mode='wb',
                             defaultextension='.png')
if f is None:
    return

filename = f.name
extension = filename.rsplit('.', 1)[-1]

img.save(f, extension)
f.close()