Here's how you do it using only PIL (install with: pip install Pillow
):
import glob
import contextlib
from PIL import Image
# filepaths
fp_in = "/path/to/image_*.png"
fp_out = "/path/to/image.gif"
# use exit stack to automatically close opened images
with contextlib.ExitStack() as stack:
# lazily load images
imgs = (stack.enter_context(Image.open(f))
for f in sorted(glob.glob(fp_in)))
# extract first image from iterator
img = next(imgs)
# https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/handbook/image-file-formats.html#gif
img.save(fp=fp_out, format='GIF', append_images=imgs,
save_all=True, duration=200, loop=0)
See docs: https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/handbook/image-file-formats.html#gif