Converting jpeg string to PIL image object

Question

I\'ve been handed a list of files from the backend of an application that are supposed to be jpeg files. However for the life of me I haven\'t been able to convert them into

Answer 1

You should be able to pass a StringIO object to PIL and open it that way.

ie:

from PIL import Image
import StringIO
tempBuff = StringIO.StringIO()
tempBuff.write(curimg)
tempBuff.seek(0) #need to jump back to the beginning before handing it off to PIL
Image.open(tempBuff)