new images from strings using PIL

[Fredrik Lundh]

"Max M" wrote:
> Your string would probably look a little like this:
>
> "GIF89aEUR
ÿÿÿ!ù¤&(¤&(g(/&dg;"
>
> Well actually it wouldn't. But the general idea is that the string would
> be how an image file like a gif would look like if opened in a text editor.

not quite: the string should contain the *raster data* section
of that file, not the header information.  for a typical gif, that's
the entire file minus the first 792 bytes or so...

if you have read an entire file into a string, use

    im = Image.open(StringIO.StringIO(data))

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