working with raw image files

[Wanderer]

On Jun 13, 4:41 pm, kafooster <dmoze... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wanderer: by *.raw I mean images with .raw extension, pure pixel data
> without headerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_image_format
>
> That is a clear and nice code however I think Image.open cannot
> handle .raw since i get error
>
>     image1 = Image.open("hand.raw", "rb")
>   File "D:\Python27\lib\site-packages\PIL\Image.py", line 1947, in
> open
>     raise ValueError("bad mode")
> ValueError: bad mode

Try dropping the "rb". I don't use it in my code. I copied it from the
OP.