How do I open an image from the internet in PIL?

Question

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/         


        

Answer 1

Using Python requests:

from PIL import Image
from StringIO import StringIO
import requests

r = requests.get("http://a/b/c")
im = Image.open(StringIO(r.content))
im.size