Converting hex data to image

[dimplemathew.17 at gmail.com]

On Monday, March 11, 2019 at 4:32:48 PM UTC+5:30, Peter Otten wrote:
> dimplemathew.17 at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> > Hi i have a similar challenge where i need to store the thumbnailPhoto
> > attribute to my local db and display the image every-time user logs in.
> > But this solution does work . data looks like this:
> > 
> \xff\xd8\xff\xe0\x00\x10JFIF\x00\x01\x01\x01\x00`\x00`\x00\x00\xff\xdb\x00C\x00
> 
> > import PIL
> > from PIL import Image
> > import io
> > data = open("bytes.txt")
> > my_data=(data.read())
> > photo_inline = io.StringIO(my_data)
> > photo = PIL.Image.open(photo_inline)
> > error:
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > File "convertToImage.py", line 9, in <module>
> > photo = PIL.Image.open(photo_inline)
> > File "", line 2657, in open
> > % (filename if filename else fp))
> > OSError: cannot identify image file <_io.StringIO object at 0x0367FD00>
> 
> Did you try
> 
> photo = PIL.Image.open("bytes.txt")
> 
> ?
> 
> If the above code is illustrative, and you really need the bytes in memory 
> remember to open the file in binary mode:
> 
> with open("bytes.txt", "rb") as instream:
>     data = instream.read()
> 
> To create the image later the file-like objects needs to produce bytes:
> 
> instream = io.BytesIO(data)  # not StringIO!
> photo = Image.open(instream)

Hey,
It shows the same error.
I am actually getting that image from ldap in bytes: '\xef\xd8\xff\xe0\x00\x10JFIF\x00\x01\x01\x01\x00`\x00`\x00\x00\xff\xdb\x00C\x00\x08\x06\x06\x07\x06\x05\x08\x07\x07\x07\t\t\x08\n\x0c\x14\r\x0c.....
I want to display this image on my template.