Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> writes: > To turn a byte string into a file-like object for use with PIL, extract > the byte string as ‘image_data’, use the standard library ‘io.StringIO’ > class <URL:http://docs.python.org/3/library/io.html#io.StringIO>, then > create a new ‘PIL.Image’ object by reading from that pseudo-file::
My apologies, I showed the wrong usage. This should work:: import io import PIL photo_data = # … get the byte string from wherever it is … photo_infile = io.StringIO(photo_data) photo_image = PIL.Image.open(photo_infile) That is, ‘PIL.Image.frombytes’ allows you to read the bytes from a byte string, but requires you to also specify metadata about the image data (format, pixel mode, size), whereas ‘PIL.Image.open’ reads the data from a file-like object and parses all the metadata. So you usually want to use the latter, as shown here. -- \ “People's Front To Reunite Gondwanaland: Stop the Laurasian | `\ Separatist Movement!” —wiredog, http://kuro5hin.org/ | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list