Last Updated: February 25, 2016

Display clipboard image in iPython notebook

Often when I'm using the iPython notebook, I have to take a screenshot and place it inline. I created the following code to quickly display the contents of my clipboard, assuming I just Alt+PrintScreen'd or have some other image copied.

from PIL import ImageGrab
from IPython.display import display, Image

def save_show_clip(ratio=1.0):
 im_data = ImageGrab.grabclipboard()
 new_size = tuple([int(i*ratio) for i in im_data.size])
 thumb = im_data.resize(new_size)
 fn = "temp.PNG"
 thumb.save(fn)
 img = Image(filename=fn)
 display(img)

save_show_clip(.3)

#python

#ipython

#pil