How do I close an image opened in Pillow?

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.

2 Answers

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() 

If you create a PIL object you will see there is no close method.

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