wxPython: images from URLs

[Jonathan Daugherty]

# self._imgstream = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
# stream=cStringIO.StringIO(self._imgstream)
# 
# try:
#    img=wxImageFromStream(stream)
# except:
#    pass

I have tried this and it appears to work, but once I have
the image (from wxImageFromStream), I use it as follows:

try:
    bm = wxBitmap(img)
    self.bitmap.setBitmap(bm)
except Exception, e:
    print e

And the exception (raised by wxBitmap(img)) is:

  String or Unicode type required

(The exception is a TypeError exception.)

Any ideas?  No exceptions are raised by the block that
creates the image from the data stream.  The image is
a JPG image, and I pass wxBITMAP_TYPE_JPEG to
wxImageFromStream.  I have also tried omitting it as
well.

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