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What does the asterisk variable holds ("*imgs")?
– denisb411
Commented Mar 31, 2020 at 21:44
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That's a python language feature. It does iterable unpacking. You can roughly think of it as unpacking x = [a, b, c] to *x which can be thought of as a, b, c (without the enclosing brackets). In function calls these are synonymous: f(*x) == f(a, b, c). In tuple unpacking it's particularly useful in cases where you want to split an iterable into a head (first element) and a tail (the rest), which is what I do in this example.
– Kris
Commented Apr 1, 2020 at 1:43
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This will load all images into memory at the same time which can easily exhaust it.
– Smiley1000
Commented Jan 30, 2022 at 22:22
You're right, I'll edit it to use iterators instead. Note that PIL is clever enough not to load all images in memory, cf. github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/blob/main/src/PIL/…
– Kris
Commented Feb 21, 2022 at 12:22
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@LoganPrice Sorry for the late reply. I believe you can change that behavior via the disposal=... keyword argument, cf. pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/handbook/…
– Kris
Commented Feb 5 at 17:30

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