Writing byte stream as jpeg format to disk

[Robert Kern]

On 8/26/10 1:25 PM, Navkirat Singh wrote:
>
> On 26-Aug-2010, at 11:01 PM, John Bokma wrote:
>
>> Navkirat Singh<navkirats at gmail.com>  writes:
>>
>>> Hey guys,
>>>
>>> I am programming a webserver, I receive a jpeg file with the POST
>>> method.The file (.jpeg) is encoded in bytes, I parse the bytes by
>>> decoding them to a string.
>>
>> Why?
>>
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> why? I am not quite sure what you have not understood.

Why decode the bytes to (presumably) unicode strings just to encode them back to 
bytes again? JPEG is not composed of unicode characters; you need to leave them 
as bytes.

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Robert Kern

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