Given a django image field, how do I create a PIL image and vice-versa?
Simple question, but hard to google :(
(I'm going to use django-imagekit 's processor to rotate an image already stored as model attribute.)
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In [41]: m.image_1.__class__
Out[41]: django.db.models.fields.files.ImageFieldFile
In [42]: f = StringIO(m.image_1.read())
In [43]: Image.open(f)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
IOError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-43-39949b3b74b3> in <module>()
----> 1 Image.open(f)
/home/eugenekim/virtualenvs/zibann/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/PIL/Image.pyc in open(fp, mode)
2023 pass
2024
-> 2025 raise IOError("cannot identify image file")
2026
2027 #
IOError: cannot identify image file
In [44]:
import Image; pil_image = Image.open(my_image_from_image_field.name)
work? – Areopagite.name
is relative to theMEDIA_ROOT
. it can be omitted because the ImageField/FileField act like file object. – Selfjustifying