Rotating an image with orientation specified in EXIF using Python without PIL including the thumbnail

Question

I have the following scenario:

• I am sending an image from iPhone along with the EXIF information to my Pyhon socket server.
• I need the image to be pro

Answer 1

Since this is the top answer for "python exif rotate" I'd like to add an addendum in case you only need the rotation value and not have PIL rotate the image - in my case I used QPixmap to rotate the image on a QGraphicsView, so I only needed the angle for the QPixmap transformation.
The answer above using PIL to get exif is rather slow. In my test it took 6x the time as the piexif library did (6 ms vs 1 ms) because creating/opening the PIL.Image takes a lot of time. So I'd recommend using piexif in this case.

import piexif

def get_exif_rotation_angle(picture)

    exif_dict = piexif.load(picture)
    if piexif.ImageIFD.Orientation in exif_dict["0th"]:
        orientation = exif_dict["0th"][piexif.ImageIFD.Orientation]
        if orientation == 3:
            return 180
        elif orientation == 6:
            return 90
        elif orientation == 8:
            return 270
        else:
            return None
    else:
        return None

picture can be file path or bytes object.

Ref: https://piexif.readthedocs.io/en/latest/sample.html#rotate-image-by-exif-orientation