In article <mailman.2725.1351058163.27098.python-l...@python.org>, Kushal Kumaran <kushal.kumaran+pyt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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-con > tent Heh, I hadn't even noticed that. I guess this is as good as it gets. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
