2008/3/11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > simple question: The PIL does not support reading the optional > description in GIF Images. > > http://www.pythonware.com/library/pil/handbook/format-gif.htm > > After some reasearch I could not find a python solution for this, any > suggestions? > > Thanx, Wingi. > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
I did a quick thing here, try it and check if it solves the problem for you: import os import sys import struct def extract_comments(giffile): fobj = open(giffile, 'rb') giftype = fobj.read(6) pf = struct.unpack('<hhBBB', fobj.read(7))[2] if pf & 0x80: pallete_size = 2 << (pf & 0x07) fobj.read(3 * pallete_size) # finished reading header fsize = os.stat(giffile).st_size while fobj.tell() != fsize: mark = ord(fobj.read(1)) if mark == 0x21: # gif extension label = ord(fobj.read(1)) is_comment = label == 254 # read the extension block blocksize = ord(fobj.read(1)) while blocksize: if is_comment: print fobj.read(blocksize) else: fobj.read(blocksize) blocksize = ord(fobj.read(1)) def main(args): if len(args) < 2: print "Usage: %s <gif file> ..." % args[0] sys.exit(0) for gif in args[1:]: extract_comments(gif) if __name__ == "__main__": main(sys.argv) -- -- Guilherme H. Polo Goncalves -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list