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PIL and requests don't get along

From	roy@panix.com (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	PIL and requests don't get along
Date	2012-10-23 14:06 -0400
Organization	PANIX -- Public Access Networks Corp.
Message-ID	<k66mc3$ed3$1@panix2.panix.com> (permalink)

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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?

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PIL and requests don't get along roy@panix.com (Roy Smith) - 2012-10-23 14:06 -0400
  Re: PIL and requests don't get along Alex Clark <aclark@aclark.net> - 2012-10-23 14:28 -0400
  Re: PIL and requests don't get along Kushal Kumaran <kushal.kumaran+python@gmail.com> - 2012-10-24 11:25 +0530
    Re: PIL and requests don't get along Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-10-24 09:35 -0400

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