How to extract this frame from .gif animation in Python

Question

I am trying to figure out how to extract a given frame from an animated gif, possibly in PIL, in Python. I can’t easily dig it out, and I assume that it will require some knowledge of the gif format, which I don’t understand. Is there an easy way to do this? Do I need to do any custom parsing?

Answer 1

Reading sequences

GIF downloader supports seekand tell. You can search for the next frame (im.seek(im.tell()+1)or rewind the file, aiming for the first frame. Random access is not supported.

http://effbot.org/imagingbook/format-gif.htm
http://effbot.org/imagingbook/image.htm