Python Image Library: AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute XXX

Question

I opened a picture with PIL, but when I tried to use split() to split the channels I got following error: AttributeError: \'NoneType\' object has no attri

Answer 1

With googling I found this comment on SO, stating that PIL is sometimes 'lazy' and 'forgets' to load after opening. So you have to do it like this:

import Image
img = Image.open('IMG_0007.jpg')
img.load()
img.split()

Please +1 also the original comment! This person did the real work.