allow pil image as input

[yupbank]

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[Astropilot]

Hello,

Thank you for your contribution!

I agree with the idea of allowing encoding of a PIL image, but rather than defining an additional function I suggest accepting an additional type in the already existing function image_to_thumbhash.
Example of implementation:

def image_to_thumbhash(
    image: Union[str, bytes, Path, BinaryIO, Image.Image],
) -> str:
    if not isinstance(image, Image.Image):
        image = Image.open(image) # For str, bytes, Path, BinaryIO we use the open() function

    m_image = exif_transpose(image).convert("RGBA")
    [...]

[yupbank]

Is there anything blocking you from merging it cc @Astropilot ?