Writing byte stream as jpeg format to disk

[Robert Kern]

On 8/26/10 4:17 PM, Navkirat Singh wrote:

> Here is what I needed to do:
>
> a) Separate image content from header content of the byte stream received from the web browser.
> b) Save the image content to disk for further use.
>
> Here is what I did. Following is just a snippet:
>
> 	
> 	#-------------HERE IS WHERE I RECEIVE THE DATA
> 	while True:
> 		buff = socket.recv(8192)
> 		byteStr +=buff
> 		if not buff: break
> 	#--------------ENCODING/DECODING STARTS FROM HERE (since I want to use split/partition functions to separate header content from the image content)
> 	strMsg = byteStr.decode("ISO-8859-1")
> 	listMsg = strMsg.split('\r\n')
> 	#----------------------------
> 	# do some more processing to search the list for the image content, say supposing index is 11
> 	#---------------------------
> 	imageStr = listMsg[11].encode("ISO-8859-1") #Transform the byte string just the way I found it

If your JPEG happens to contain the bytes \r\n, then this will not work. Please 
follow our advice. Split using b'\r\n\r\n' and use the maxsplit=1 argument to 
make sure that you do not split on spurious b'\r\n\r\n' sequences inside the 
JPEG body. Do not decode the bytes.

-- 
Robert Kern

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