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

you can wrap Nadia's answer in this function, which gives you control over size and background.

def make_square(im, min_size=36, fill_color=(255, 255, 255, 0)):
    x, y = im.size
    size = min(min_size, x, y)
    new_im = Image.new('RGBA', (size, size), fill_color)
    im.thumbnail((256, 256))
    new_im.paste(im, (int((x - size) / 2), int((y -size) / 2))
    return new_im