[Image-SIG] PIL and converting an image to and from a string value

[Gareth Rees]

Chris Hare wrote:
> okay - I have an error but I don't understand what I got wrong:
> 
> self.imageBuffer = StringIO.StringIO()
> image = Image.open(filename)
> image = image.resize((150,150),Image.ANTIALIAS)
> image.save(self.imageBuffer, format= 'PNG')
> image = Image.open(self.imageBuffer)
> IOError: cannot identify image file
> 
> The error occurs when trying to open the imageBuffer so I can work with the data in the buffer.  What have I missed?

You need to rewind to the start of the buffer before trying to read from it:

	self.imageBuffer.seek(0)

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Gareth Rees