On 23 Oct 2012 14:06:59 -0400, r...@panix.com (Roy Smith) wrote: > I have a url from which I can get an image. I want to use PIL to > manipulate that image. Getting the image is easy: > > >>> import requests > >>> r = requests.get(url) > > There's a bunch of factory functions for Image, but none of them seem > to take anything that requests is willing to give you. Image.new() > requires that you pass it the image size. Image.open() takes a file > object, but > > >>> Image.open(r.raw) > > doesn't work because r.raw gives you a socket which doesn't support > seek(). I end up doing: > > >>> r = requests.get(url) > >>> data = cStringIO.StringIO(r.content) > >>> image = Image.open(data) > > which works, but it's gross. Is there something I'm missing here?
That is pretty much what the requests module documentation says here: http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/quickstart/#binary-response-content -- regards, kushal -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
