Simple profiler to understand Pillow memory usage working with images in memory.

pillow_profiles.py

from urllib.request import urlopen
from PIL import Image
from memory_profiler import profile


@profile
def run():
    img = Image.open(urlopen("https://graviolastatics.s3.amazonaws.com/thumbnails/card.jpg"))
    thumbnail = img.resize((300, 300), Image.ANTIALIAS)
    thumbnail.show()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    run()