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On 2012-10-14 05:23, Vincent Davis wrote:
> I am working on a script to find bad image files. I am using PIL
> and specifically image.verify() I have a set of known to be bad image
> files to test. I also what to be able to test any file for example a
> .txt and deal with the exception.
> Currently my code is basically
>
> try:
>      im = Image.open(ifile)
>      try:
>          print(im.verify())
>      except:
>          print('Pil image.verify() failed: ' + afile)
> except IOError:
>      print('PIL cannot identify image file: ' + afile)
> except:
>      print(ifile)
>      print("Unexpected error doing PIL.Image.open():", sys.exc_info()[0])
>      raise
>
[snip]
I notice that you have both "ifile" and "afile". Is that correct?