How do I read image data from a URL in Python?

In Python3 the StringIO and cStringIO modules are gone.

In Python3 you should use:

from PIL import Imageimport requestsfrom io import BytesIOresponse = requests.get(url)img = Image.open(BytesIO(response.content))

python python-imaging-library

Using a StringIO

import urllib, cStringIOfile = cStringIO.StringIO(urllib.urlopen(URL).read())img = Image.open(file)

python python-imaging-library

The following works for Python 3:

from PIL import Imageimport requestsim = Image.open(requests.get(url, stream=True).raw)

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