# Image loaders

`sdl2.ext.``get_image_formats`() -> (str, str, ...)

  Gets the formats supported by PySDL2 in the default installation.

`sdl2.ext.``load_image`(fname : str[, enforce=None]) → sdl2.SDL_Surface

  Creates a `sdl2.SDL_Surface` from an image file.

  This function makes use of the Python Imaging Library, if it is available on the target execution environment. The function will try to load the file via `sdl2` first. If the file could not be loaded, it will try to load it via `sdl2.sdlimage` and PIL.

  You can force the function to use only one of them, by passing the enforce as either `"PIL"` or `"SDL"`.

  Note

  This will call `sdl2.sdlimage.IMG_Init()` implicitly with the default arguments, if the module is available and if `sdl2.SDL_LoadBMP()` failed to load the image.