Sequential file name problem (Python/Picam)

Question

I would be very grateful for some guidance on the following script. You will see that I have very little experience (3 days!).

Using the pantilthat servo control, I am taking a image (jpg) at various camera positions. This is in a continuous loop that will be run during daylight hours.

I am trying to save the images like so, 1.jpg, 2.jpg, 3.jpg..... 1.jpg, 2.jpg, 3.jpg.... etc etc

The code works, but I just cant figure out the file naming part. Thank you for looking and any improvents gratefully received.

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#!/usr/bin/env python
import pantilthat
import time
import picamera
x = 0
while x < 9:
        print "Take Photo"
        with picamera.PiCamera() as camera:
                camera.resolution = (1024, 768)
                camera.start_preview()
                camera.annotate_text = 'Picture Taken with Raspberry camera'
                time.sleep(2)
                for filename in camera.record_sequence(
                'image%02d.jpg' % i for i in range(1)):
                        print('Saving to %s' % filename)
                camera.stop_preview()
                print('Done')
        x += 1
        if x == 1:
                print("1")
                pantilthat.pan(30)
                pantilthat.tilt(-10)
                time.sleep(1)
        elif x == 2:
                print("2")
                pantilthat.pan(20)
                pantilthat.tilt(0)
                time.sleep(1)
         elif x == 3:
                pantilthat.pan(10)
                pantilthat.tilt(10)
                print("3")
                time.sleep(1)
        elif x == 4:
                pantilthat.pan(0)
                pantilthat.tilt(-10)
                print("4")
                time.sleep(1)
        elif x == 5:
                pantilthat.pan(-10)
                pantilthat.tilt(10)
                print("5")
                time.sleep(1)
        elif x == 6:
                pantilthat.pan(-20)
                pantilthat.tilt(-20)
                print("6")
                time.sleep(1)
       elif x == 7:
                pantilthat.pan(-30)
                pantilthat.tilt(20)
                print("7")
                time.sleep(1)
                x=0
        else:
                pass

Answer 1

How about something like the following.

I'm using a list to store your pan and tilt values and capturing 1 image on each loop. Simply concatenating the string value of i onto 'image' followed by .'jpg' to create the image name.

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import pantilthat,time,picamera

panTilt = [[ 30, -10],
           [ 20,   0],
           [ 10,  10],
           [  0, -10],
           [-10,  10],
           [-20, -20],
           [-30,  20],
           [  0,   0]]

camera=picamera.PiCamera()
camera.resolution = (1024, 768)
camera.annotate_text = 'Picture Taken with Raspberry camera'

for i,(pan,tilt) in enumerate(panTilt):
    print("Take Photo")
    camera.capture('image'+str(i)+'.jpg')
    print(i,pan,tilt)
    pantilthat.pan(pan)
    pantilthat.tilt(tilt)
    time.sleep(1)

camera.close()