How to convert PIL Image.image object to base64 string? [duplicate]

Answer 1

Python 3

import base64
from io import BytesIO

buffered = BytesIO()
image.save(buffered, format="JPEG")
img_str = base64.b64encode(buffered.getvalue())

Python 2

import base64
import cStringIO

buffer = cStringIO.StringIO()
image.save(buffer, format="JPEG")
img_str = base64.b64encode(buffer.getvalue())