title: Can I access ImageMagick API with Python?
body: <p>I need to use <a href="http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php" rel="noreferrer"><strong>ImageMagick</strong></a> as PIL does not have the amount of image functionality available that I am looking for. However, I am wanting to use Python.</p>
  
  <p>The python bindings (PythonMagick) have not been updated since 2009. The only thing I have been able to find is <code>os.system</code> calls to use the command line interface but this seems clunky.</p>
  
  <p>Is there any way to access the API directly using <code>ctypes</code> and conversions of some sort? 
  As a last resort is there any other library out there that has the extensive amount of image editing tools like ImageMagick that I have looked over?</p>