> On Oct 5, 2010 8:03pm, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: >> On 05/10/2010 23:50, hid...@gmail.com wrote: >> I did but the mistake is: Error interpreting JPEG image file (Not a JPEG >> file: starts with 0x5c 0x6e) >> >> I think the problem is maybe in the binary code here is: <snip> >> > On Oct 5, 2010 6:18pm, "Jonas H." jo...@lophus.org> wrote: >> > > On 10/05/2010 11:11 PM, hid...@gmail.com wrote: >> > > Hello, how i can save a binary file, i read in the manual in the IO >> area >> > > but doesn' t show how to save it. >> >> > > Here is the code what i am using: >> > > s = open('/home/hidura/test.jpeg', 'wb') >> > > s.write(str.encode(formFields[5])) >> > > s.close() <snip> >> Why are you encoding it? A JPEG file should contain the binary data, >> not a textual encoding of its bytes. The error message you got said >> that the contents of the file started with a backslash. >> >> If you print out, say, repr(str[ : 10]) you should get something like >> >> 'ÿØÿà\x00\x10JFIF'. >> >> Try this instead: >> >> s = open('/home/hidura/test.jpeg', 'wb') >> s.write(str) >> s.close() >> >> Incidentally, 'str' is a bad name for a variable because it's the name >> of the built-in string type.
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 9:53 PM, <hid...@gmail.com> wrote: > I has to use repr to convert in this string: ÿØÿà\x00\x10JFIF? No, you don't/shouldn't convert it at all. Read/use the 3 lines of suggested code that MRAB gave: s = open('/home/hidura/test.jpeg', 'wb') s.write(str) s.close() Cheers, Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list