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Python 3 files_download JPEG. Get UnicodeDecodeError
Using Python 3.8 I can successfully download a JPEG image. However, I want to access the exif information so am trying to use Pillow to open it. Whatever I try I get the following error: 'UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0: invalid start byte'. I'd be grateful for any suggestions as I'm stumped.
Successful download code:
dbx = dropbox.Dropbox(os.environ['DROPBOX_TOKEN'])
for entry in dbx.files_list_folder('').entries:
md, response = dbx.files_download('/' + entry.name)
file_stream = response.content
print(len(file_stream), 'bytes; md:', md)
Code to open file_stream that results in error:
with open(file_stream, 'rb') as data:
# do things with file
Same error resulting from Pillow code:
image = Image.open(file_stream)
image.show()
Many thanks
The Python open method expects a path-like object in order to open a file, but your file_stream is the response.content, which is already the actual file data, not a path-like object. You can use it directly without calling open.
As for using Pillow, I can't offer help for that as it's not made by Dropbox, but it looks like there's an example in the requests documentation that may be helpful here.
2 Replies
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
The Python open method expects a path-like object in order to open a file, but your file_stream is the response.content, which is already the actual file data, not a path-like object. You can use it directly without calling open.
As for using Pillow, I can't offer help for that as it's not made by Dropbox, but it looks like there's an example in the requests documentation that may be helpful here.
Thank you very much Greg, the link you sent solved it!
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