I am currently using PIL. from PIL import Image try: im = Image.open(filename) # do stuff except IOError: # filename not an image file However, while this sufficiently covers most cases, some ...

I'm downloading a lot of images from imgur.com with a Python script and since I have all the links in the format http://imgur.com/{id} I have to force download them by replacing the original url wi...

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