[python-win32] How to convert an OLE image from ODBC?

Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz ghankiewicz at rastertech.es
Sat May 12 19:49:53 CEST 2007


Tim Golden wrote:
> Steven James wrote:
>> It appears that your database is adding a header of its own on the
>> image file (or maybe this is part of it being an OLE object, not
>> sure).
>> 
>> If you strip off the first 88 bytes, this is a standard windows
>> bitmap file. The following code works on your file, but for your
>> code you should just start dumping the data at the 89th byte.
> 
> I think that's what the OP meant when he said that they were
> basically the same, but that he didn't know if the size of the header
> would be constant.

What the hell. I'll go with the 88 skip trick for the while wrapping
everything into a big try/except with error logging to a file and see
how it goes.

Thanks for the help.

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