How do I open an image from the internet in PIL?
python, python-imaging-library, urllib2
Solution
You might consider using `io.BytesIO` for forward compatibility. The StringIO and cStringIO modules do not exist in Python 3.
from PIL import Image
import urllib2 as urllib
import io
fd = urllib.urlopen("http://a/b/c")
image_file = io.BytesIO(fd.read())
im = Image.open(image_file)
Problem
I would like to find the dimensions of an image on the internet. I tried using ``` from PIL import Image import urllib2 as urllib fd = urllib.urlopen("http://a/b/c") im = Image.open(fd) im.size ``` as suggested in this answer, but I get the error message ``` addinfourl instance has no attribute 'seek' ``` I checked and objects returned by `urllib2.urlopen(url)` do not seem to have a seek method according to `dir`. So, what do I have to do to be able to load an image from the Internet into PIL?