Perfect. Thank you @Ben and @Tim
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au>wrote: > 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 >
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