Converting hex data to image

[dimplemathew.17 at gmail.com]

On Tuesday, March 12, 2019 at 2:09:06 PM UTC+5:30, Peter Otten wrote:
> dimplemathew.17 at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Save the image to a file (in binary mode!) and then try to open it with an 
> image viewer. The data may be corrupted.

When i tried doing that it says Invalid Image...