working with raw image files

[Wanderer]

On Jun 13, 4:58 pm, kafooster <dmoze... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13 Cze, 22:52, Wanderer <wande... at dialup4less.com> wrote:
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> > On Jun 13, 4:41 pm, kafooster <dmoze... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > Wanderer: by *.raw I mean images with .raw extension, pure pixel data
> > > without headerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_image_format
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> > > That is a clear and nice code however I think Image.open cannot
> > > handle .raw since i get error
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> > >     image1 = Image.open("hand.raw", "rb")
> > >   File "D:\Python27\lib\site-packages\PIL\Image.py", line 1947, in
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> > >     raise ValueError("bad mode")
> > > ValueError: bad mode
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> > Try dropping the "rb". I don't use it in my code. I copied it from the
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> I tried it, then it cannot identify image file

You're right raw is not a supported file format.

http://www.pythonware.com/library/pil/handbook/index.htm