Loading image from URL with PIL

[fredrik at pythonware.com]

rgb122 at my-deja.com wrote:
> Is it possible to load an image (GIF or JPEG)
> straight from a URL without saving it to a file
> first. I tried this:
>
> u = urllib.urlopen
> ("http://localhost/cache/test.jpg")
> data = u.read()
> s = array.array("b", data).tostring()

fp = urllib.urlopen(myurl)
im = Image.open(fp)

> Also, how can I convert a GIF to a JPEG using PIL?

see the documentation for the 'save' method.

to do the conversion in memory, save to a StringIO
object, and make sure you pass a second argument to
'save'.

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