lores 0.0.5

Render image files in the terminal

Render images in the terminal. Pronounced ‘Lo-Res’.

install

pip install lores. Done.

lores depends on [pillow][], [requests][], and [vari][]; the above command installs dependencies as needed.

[pillow]: https://github.com/python-imaging/Pillow [requests]: https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests [vari]: https://github.com/philadams/vari

use

Render a local or remote image in your terminal:

lores fixtures/parrot.png lores –columns=40 http://octodex.github.com/images/original.jpg


help

As expected, via -h or –help:

usage: lores [-h] [-c COLUMNS] imfile

Render images on the terminal. http://github.com/philadams/lores

positional arguments:

imfile image file to render

optional arguments:

-h, --help

show this help message and exit

-c COLUMNS, --columns COLUMNS

width of img in terminal columns

future

• better error reporting (don’t just defer to e.g. requests or PIL libs)