[andipro]

After loading and using images, sometimes it will good (spare memory) to unload or close images. I only found the possibility to clear an image, but not more. Closing or deleting dont work thank you for your tip

[bogdan.galiceanu]

Have you tried something like this:

#Let's assume img is your image object

del img
#This deletes it

[andipro]

I my god - so simple!? What a shame! Thank you...
(I've tried img.delete() )

[jethro.fn]

Originally Posted by andipro

I my god - so simple!? What a shame! Thank you...
(I've tried img.delete() )

del is a general Python statement which removes a reference pointing to an object. When the last reference to an object is deleted, the object may be garbage collected. Note that there may be other references pointing to the image object. Only after all of the references are deleted, memory may be freed:

img = graphics.Image.open("E:\\Images\\myimage.jpg")

img2 = img   # img and img2 reference the same image. There are no two Image() objects.

del img      # The Image() object still stays, because img2 points to it.

del img2     # Now the memory of the Image() object may be reclaimed.