Is There A Way To Capture An Image Of The Screen In Python With Ctypes?

I want to have python save an image file of the whole screen as a variable with ctypes so that I could access the screen in a program and do something with it (like put it on a pyg

Solution 1:

PIL.ImageGrab is from PILLOW (a python image library fork which you can install with pip). You can give a bounding box or capture the entire screen.

Update: OP now mentions he can't use external libraries.

Then you could virtually hit printscreen and read the clipboard. The code of PILLOW is open-source feel free to use it.

Remember that you can always call a command from within python:

>>>import os>>>os.system("pip install pillow")

Or download the zip of the library and import it in your code.