What I'm trying to do is fairly simple when we're dealing with a local file, but the problem comes when I try to do this with a remote URL. Basically, I'm trying to create a PIL image object from a file pulled from a URL. Sure, I could always just fetch the URL and store it in a temp file, then open it into an image object, but that feels very inefficient. Here's what I have: Image.open(urlopen(url)) It flakes out complaining that seek() isn't available, so then I tried this: Image.open(urlopen(url).read()) But that didn't work either. Is there a Better Way to do this, or is writing to a temporary file the accepted way of doing this sort of thing? Continue reading...
