What is colorsys.rgb_to_hls(r, g, b) in Python?

The colorsys.rgb_to_hls(r, g, b) function converts RGBRed Green Blue coordinates to HLSHue Lightness Saturation coordinates. The hls color scale is a re-coding of the rgb color scale. We generally use this to indite variants of a color by simply increasing or decreasing the Hue, Lightness, or Saturation of the color.

Declaration

The colorsys module stores the definition of the rgb_to_hls() function. We can import the colorsys module using the following code:

import colorsys

colorsys.rgb_to_hls(r, g, b)

r, g, and b can have any value between 0 and 1 inclusive.

Code

The following code snippet demonstrates the use of rgb_to_hls():