Python / PIL: Create and save image from data uri

Question

I have a url like so

data:image/jpeg;base64,/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQAAAQABAAD/2wCEAAkGBxITEhUUEhQUFRUXGBcVFxgXFxUXGBQYGBYXGBQWFRUYHCggGB0lHBQXITIhJSkrLi4uFyAzODMsN         


        

Answer 1

To expand on the comment from Stephen Emslie, in Python 3 this works and is less code:

data = 'data:image/jpeg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUAAAhwAAAFoCAYAAAA.......'
response = urllib.request.urlopen(data)
with open('image.jpg', 'wb') as f:
    f.write(response.file.read())