Deconstruct a gif into individual frames

deconstruct.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

# $ ./deconstruct.py path_to_gif.gif output/path/
# Will output the frames to the specified directory.

import sys
import os
import time
from PIL import Image

def deconstruct_gif(gif, out_dir):
    if not os.path.isdir(out_dir):
        os.makedirs(out_dir)
    frame = Image.open(gif)
    i = 0
    print("Deconstructing your gif...")
    while frame:
        time.sleep(.01)
        frame.save('%s/%s-%s.png' % (out_dir, os.path.basename(gif), i) , 'PNG')
        i += 1
        sys.stdout.write("-")
        sys.stdout.flush()
        try:
            frame.seek(i)
        except EOFError:
            break;
    sys.stdout.write("\n")
    return True

def main():
    image = ''.join(sys.argv[1:][0])
    path = ''.join(sys.argv[1:][1])
    deconstruct_gif(image, path)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()