<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN' 'http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd'> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=us-ascii' /> <title>The PIL.ImageFileIO Module</title> <link rel='stylesheet' href='effbot.css' type='text/css' /> </head> <body> <h1>The PIL.ImageFileIO Module</h1> <dl> <dt><b>ImageFileIO(fp)</b> (class) [<a href='#PIL.ImageFileIO.ImageFileIO-class'>#</a>]</dt> <dd> <p>The ImageFileIO module can be used to read an image from a socket, or any other stream device.</p> <p>For more information about this class, see <a href='#PIL.ImageFileIO.ImageFileIO-class'><i>The ImageFileIO Class</i></a>.</p> </dd> </dl> <h2><a id='PIL.ImageFileIO.ImageFileIO-class' name='PIL.ImageFileIO.ImageFileIO-class'>The ImageFileIO Class</a></h2> <dl> <dt><b>ImageFileIO(fp)</b> (class) [<a href='#PIL.ImageFileIO.ImageFileIO-class'>#</a>]</dt> <dd> <p>The <b>ImageFileIO</b> module can be used to read an image from a socket, or any other stream device. </p><p> This module is deprecated. New code should use the <b>Parser</b> class in the <a href="imagefile">ImageFile</a> module instead. </p></dd> <dt><a id='PIL.ImageFileIO.ImageFileIO.__init__-method' name='PIL.ImageFileIO.ImageFileIO.__init__-method'><b>__init__(fp)</b></a> [<a href='#PIL.ImageFileIO.ImageFileIO.__init__-method'>#</a>]</dt> <dd> <p>Adds buffering to a stream file object, in order to provide <b>seek</b> and <b>tell</b> methods required by the <b>Image.open</b> method. The stream object must implement <b>read</b> and <b>close</b> methods. </p><dl> <dt><i>fp</i></dt> <dd> Stream file handle.</dd> </dl><br /> </dd> </dl> </body></html>