Converting hex data to image

[dimplemathew.17 at gmail.com]

On Friday, November 15, 2013 at 3:52:58 AM UTC+5:30, Shyam Parimal Katti wrote:
> Perfect. Thank you @Ben and @Tim
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> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Ben Finney <ben+p... at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
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> Ben Finney <ben+p... at benfinney.id.au> writes:
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> > To turn a byte string into a file-like object for use with PIL, extract
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> > the byte string as ‘image_data’, use the standard library ‘io.StringIO’
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> > class <URL:http://docs.python.org/3/library/io.html#io.StringIO>, then
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> > create a new ‘PIL.Image’ object by reading from that pseudo-file::
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> My apologies, I showed the wrong usage. This should work::
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>     import io
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>     import PIL
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>     photo_data = # … get the byte string from wherever it is …
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>     photo_infile = io.StringIO(photo_data)
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>     photo_image = PIL.Image.open(photo_infile)
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> That is, ‘PIL.Image.frombytes’ allows you to read the bytes from a byte
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> string, but requires you to also specify metadata about the image data
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> (format, pixel mode, size), whereas ‘PIL.Image.open’ reads the data from
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> a file-like object and parses all the metadata. So you usually want to
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> use the latter, as shown here.
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Hi i have a similar challenge where i need to store the thumbnailPhoto attribute to my local db and display the image every-time user logs in. But this solution does work .
data looks like this: \xff\xd8\xff\xe0\x00\x10JFIF\x00\x01\x01\x01\x00`\x00`\x00\x00\xff\xdb\x00C\x00
\x08\x06\x06\x07\x06\x05\x08\x07\x07\x07\t\t\x08\n\x0c\x14\r\x0c\x0b\x0b\x0c\x19\x12\x13\x0f\x14\x1d\x1a\x1f\x1e\x1d\x1a\x1c\x1c $.\' ",#\x1c\x1c(7),01444\x1f\'9=82<.342\xff\xdb\x00C\x01\t\t\t\x0c\x0b\x0c\x18\r\r\x182!\x1c!222222222222222222222222222222222



import PIL
from PIL import Image
import io
data = open("bytes.txt")
my_data=(data.read())
photo_inline = io.StringIO(my_data)
photo = PIL.Image.open(photo_inline)
error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "convertToImage.py", line 9, in <module>
    photo = PIL.Image.open(photo_inline)
  File "", line 2657, in open
    % (filename if filename else fp))
OSError: cannot identify image file <_io.StringIO object at 0x0367FD00>