PIL - Image.open() problem

[Per Jensen]

In article <fQaD7.3257$Z_1.557518 at newsc.telia.net>, "Fredrik Lundh"
<fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:

That was it !

When the routine failed, it was always when reading elements from a XML
file. Apparently it was this Unicode issue.

Thanks a lot, I have been struggling with this for a *long* time :-)

BTW: this solution wil clear the way for a new release of a little, yet
very useful, program. Check it out at http://www.net-es.dk/~pj/python

Thanx



> Per Jensen wrote:
> 
>> Problem: I have a method in a classe which sometimes open a JPEG image,
>> and at other times do not.
> 
>> --------------------------------------------- Opening picture: "1.jpg"
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "./picture.py", line 155, in getImage self.picture =
>>   Image.open(self.filename) File
>>   "/var/tmp/python-imaging-root//usr/lib/python2.0/site-packages/PIL/Image.py",
>>   line 871, in open prefix = fp.read(16)
>> AttributeError: read
>> --------------------------------------------
> 
> could it be that someone's passing you a unicode string? PIL's
> file-or-string code doesn't deal properly with unicode strings:
> 
>>>> import Image
>>>> i = Image.open("lena.jpg")
>>>> i = Image.open(u"lena.jpg")
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File "c:\py21\PIL\Image.py", line 936, in open
>     prefix = fp.read(16)
> AttributeError: read
>>>>
>>>>
> try changing your code to:
> 
>     self.picture = Image.open(str(self.filename))
> 
> or, if you're on a platform that can handle unicode filenames:
> 
>     self.picture = Image.open(open(self.filename, "rb"))
> 
> :::
> 
> note that 2.2 is a bit more helpful:
> 
> Python 2.2b1 (#25, Oct 19 2001, 21:26:51)
>>>> import Image
>>>> i = Image.open("lena.jpg")
>>>> i = Image.open(u"lena.jpg")
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File "c:\py22\PIL\Image.py", line 936, in open
>     prefix = fp.read(16)
> AttributeError: 'unicode' object has no attribute 'read'
> 
> </F>