[Image-SIG] tostring

[Dmitry Vasiliev]

THOGROM.terra.es wrote:
> Hello list!
> I'm using python to store some images as strings.
>         image = PIL.Image.open(sname)
>         self.__simagestr = image.tostring()
>         os.remove(sname)

tostring() just returns pixels data. If you want opening the string through 
StringIO later you just can do:

self.__simagestr = open(sname).read()

> Later, I have to store this string on a file:
> def savedraw(self, suri):
>        #suri is a path like "/home/image.jpeg"
>         data = StringIO.StringIO(self.__simagestr)
>         im = PIL.Image.open(data)
>         im.save(data,'JPEG')

im.save(suri, 'JPEG') ?

> But the system shows the next error when execute PIL.Image.open(data)
>     raise IOError("cannot identify image file")

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