PIL and pygame.image

I had opened an image using PIL, as

image = Image.open("SomeImage.png")

Draw some text on it, as

draw = ImageDraw.Draw(image)
draw.text(Some parameters here)

and then saved it as

image.save("SomeOtherName.png")

to open it using pygame.image

this_image = pygame.image.load("SomeOtherName.png")

I just want to do it without saving.. Can that be possible? It is taking a lot of time to save and then load(0.12 sec Yes, that is more as I have multiple images which require this operation). Can that save method be surpassed?

Answer

You could use the fromstring() function from pygame.image. The following should work, according to the documentation:

image = Image.open("SomeImage.png")
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(image)
draw.text(Some parameters here)

mode = image.mode
size = image.size
data = image.tostring()

this_image = pygame.image.fromstring(data, size, mode)