On 27-Aug-2010, at 1:10 AM, Robert Kern wrote: > On 8/26/10 1:25 PM, Navkirat Singh wrote: >> >> On 26-Aug-2010, at 11:01 PM, John Bokma wrote: >> >>> Navkirat Singh<navkir...@gmail.com> writes: >>> >>>> Hey guys, >>>> >>>> I am programming a webserver, I receive a jpeg file with the POST >>>> method.The file (.jpeg) is encoded in bytes, I parse the bytes by >>>> decoding them to a string. >>> >>> Why? >>> >>> -- >>> John Bokma j3b >>> >>> Blog: http://johnbokma.com/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/j.j.j.bokma >>> Freelance Perl& Python Development: http://castleamber.com/ >>> -- >>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >> >> why? I am not quite sure what you have not understood. > > Why decode the bytes to (presumably) unicode strings just to encode them back > to bytes again? JPEG is not composed of unicode characters; you need to leave > them as bytes. > > -- > Robert Kern > > "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma > that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had > an underlying truth." > -- Umberto Eco > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
The image bytes are a part of a HTTP header content ( not the message body ). To separate the header content from the image I have to first convert the bytes to string to perform parsing. The resultant string then needs to be converted back to the image. Hence, my problem. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
