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Re: PIL and requests don't get along

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On 23 Oct 2012 14:06:59 -0400, roy@panix.com (Roy Smith) wrote:
> 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?

That is pretty much what the requests module documentation says here:

http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/quickstart/#binary-response-content

-- 
regards,
kushal

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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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