Converting bitmap to jpeg array

[sujitvasanth]

I am trying to take screenshots and send to home assistant as jpeg.
My solution works but is very inelligent.. please help ..I would like to do without PIL and without the intermediate jpeg file

    screen=autopy.bitmap.capture_screen()
    screen.save("screenshot.jpeg")
    with open("screenshot.jpeg", 'rb') as f:
        filecontent = f.read()
    byteArr = bytearray(filecontent)
    client.publish(topic_screen, byteArr)

Presumably autopy does the jpeg conversion prior to the file save so just wanted to capture the array and not save to file
sincerely Sujit