How to skip PNG transparent images?

[Cristian Stan]

Congratulations for this nice project!

I just tested it out. It works smoothly but I have a problem. I need to placehold all images type but excluding the PNG's image format.

Is this possible? If yes how can I achieve this because I wasn't able to find this on the readme section.

Looking forward to your reply,

• Cristian

[Abraham Tugalov]

Hi, Cristian!
Check for last version of PlaceHoldMachine, it's 1.0.2 now.
Method set_allowed_image_formats was added and can be used to solve your issue.

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- 
from PlaceHoldMachine import PlaceHoldMachine

i = PlaceHoldMachine()
i.log_level = 2

i.allowed_image_formats(['JPEG'])

dirs = [
	'C:/Users/admin/Pictures/test/MediaTrans'
]

i.walk_recursive(dirs)
i.start()

p.s. Don't forget to install latest Pillow with pip install Pillow

[Cristian Stan]

That's perfect! Thank you for the fast reply!

Keep up the good work 👍

[Cristian Stan]

I just downloaded the latest version of PlaceHoldMachine.py but when I run the command I get this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "simple.py", line 8, in <module>
    i.allowed_image_formats(['JPEG'])
TypeError: 'str' object is not callable

In simple.py I added the line (So the error comes from this line):
i.allowed_image_formats(['JPEG'])

How can I solve this error? Changing the '*' with 'JPEG' in PlaceHoldMachine.py solves the trick but I'm just curious why it gives me that error?

Any advice?

[Abraham Tugalov]

Running this code on Python 3.6.0 and Python 2.7.13

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- 
from PlaceHoldMachine import PlaceHoldMachine #import class

i = PlaceHoldMachine() #create class instance
i.log_level = 2 #set log level to 2, so we can see errors

# set directories list, where all images will be replaced with placeholders
dirs = [
	'C:/Users/admin/Pictures/test/MediaTrans'
]

i.allowed_image_formats(['JPEG'])

i.walk_recursive(dirs) #recursively find all images in given directories
i.start() #begin conversion process

Everything works fine.
Can you provide full invalid source code?

[Cristian Stan]

Still same problem.

1. simple.py file contains now the same content provided in your last reply.

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- 
from PlaceHoldMachine import PlaceHoldMachine #import class

i = PlaceHoldMachine() #create class instance
i.log_level = 2 #set log level to 2, so we can see errors

# set directories list, where all images will be replaced with placeholders
dirs = [
	'C:/Users/CSTAR-PC/Desktop/Dummy_GEN'
]

i.allowed_image_formats(['JPEG'])

i.walk_recursive(dirs) #recursively find all images in given directories
i.start() #begin conversion process

Note: I'm using Python v2.7