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

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ANSWER 1

In Python3 the StringIO and cStringIO modules are gone.

In Python3 you should use:

from PIL import Image
import requests
from io import BytesIO

response = requests.get(url)
img = Image.open(BytesIO(response.content))

The following works for Python 3:

from PIL import Image
import requests

im = Image.open(requests.get(url, stream=True).raw)

References:

Using a StringIO

import urllib, cStringIO

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

Using requests:

from PIL import Image
import requests
from StringIO import StringIO

response = requests.get(url)
img = Image.open(StringIO(response.content))