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How do I get the color depth and/or the resolution from a byte string in Python?

^ As above. Is this possible?

I'm using a library to get image data from an mp3 and it returns the data as a byte string but to display the image I need to get the resolution and color depth.

Ideally I would prefer a library written in Python without dependencies so as to make my app as portable as possible.

If it's not too much trouble I would appreciate an example with the answer, thanks.

Solution

  • You can use PIL to work with images in Python. In your case you can do:

    >>> from StringIO import StringIO
>>> from PIL import Image

>>> im = Image.open(StringIO(image_string))

>>> im.size, im.bits
<<< ((1654, 1279), 8)