Will McGugan wrote: > I'm writing an app that downloads images. It rejects images that are > under a certain size - whithout downloading them completely. I've > implemented this using PIL, by downloading the first K and trying to > create a PIL image with it. PIL raises an exception because the file is > incomplete, but the image object is initialised with the image > dimensions, which is what I need. It actualy works well enough, but I'm > concerened about side-effects - since it seems an unconventional way of > working with PIL. Can anyone see any problems with doing this? Or a > better method?
the "right" way to do this is to use the ImageFile.Parser class. see the last snippet on this page for an example: http://effbot.org/zone/pil-image-size.htm </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list