I also posted the question here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51355926/send-pil-image-to-django-server-side-and-get-it-back
I don't know what's under the hood of sending an image from client side to server side, so stuck by the following scenario. I want to send a PIL.Image object to django server side using the Python requests lib and get it back in order to use the PIL.Image object on server side. As I have tested , if sent the PIL.Image object without any conversion , that is r = requests.post(SERVER_URL, data={ 'image': PILimage,#PILimage is of type PIL.Image 'wordPos':(86,23) }, ) then I just got a str object with value <PIL.PngImagePlugin.PngImageFile image mode=RGB size=149x49 at 0x13F25D0> on server side, I guess it was caused by requests, which converted the PIL.Image object to a str object before sending, so why requestsdo the conversion ? why cannot we send the PIL.Image object without any conversion over the Internet ? please give some explanation here, thanks! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list