PIL and requests don't get along

[Roy Smith]

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:

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

doesn't work because r.raw gives you a socket which doesn't support
seek(). I end up doing:

which works, but it's gross. Is there something I'm missing here?

 

[Alex Clark]

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:


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


doesn't work because r.raw gives you a socket which doesn't support
seek(). I end up doing:


which works, but it's gross. Is there something I'm missing here?

No idea but you can open a ticket here if you think it's appropriate:
https://github.com/python-imaging/Pillow/issues

 

[Kushal Kumaran]

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:


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


doesn't work because r.raw gives you a socket which doesn't support
seek(). I end up doing:


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

 

[Roy Smith]

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

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

Heh, I hadn't even noticed that. I guess this is as good as it gets.