PIL: Thumbnail and end up with a square image

Question

Calling

image = Image.open(data)
image.thumbnail((36,36), Image.NEAREST)

will maintain the aspect ratio. But I need to end up displaying th

Answer 1

Why not simply use the resize method ?

from PIL import Image
image = Image.open('/path/to/img.png')
image = image.resize((36,36), Image.ANTIALIAS)

See recommendations for image resizing in this release note: https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/releasenotes/5.3.0.html