Monty Python

Using Python to Remove Image Backgrounds

Jim Lawless
A couple of weeks ago, I saw a notification containing a simple Python script that would remove backgrounds from images. The sample source code was something like this: from rembg import remove from PIL import Image inp = Image.open('image.jpg') output = remove(inp) output.save('image.png') I tried it. The results were pretty impressive. Without providing any parameters to speak of, a number of images that I used to test the library were transformed into images highlighting a central person or object while rendering the background transparent.

The Cycling Tour

Jim Lawless
The Cycling Tour is the eighth episode of the third season of Monty Python’s Flying Circus. The Cycling Tour is unusual when compared against other episodes of the show as the entire show is dedicated to one long skit. Michael Palin portrays the central character of the show: a bicycle tourist named Mr. Pither. Pither goes about his way on his bicycle repeatedly crashing and damaging his food supplies. As he talks to people he meets along the tour, he informs them that he is on a cycling tour of North Cornwall.