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katec3
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5 years ago
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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: 'UnicodeDeco...
  • Greg-DB's avatar
    5 years ago

    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.

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