How to convert bytes from string to image in python?

Question

I have this byte object in string format inside a .txtfile and I'm lost on how to convert it back into byte object, like img=b'\x00\x00\x00' so that I can write it back into an image.

The image is supposed to be a black square when back to image format.

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Opening the file .txt file with the byte object

file=open('filename.txt','r').read()

I tried this, but the file is in a string format

with open('new_pic.png','wb')as img:
    img.write(file)

@TAHASULTANTEMURI I looked into the link and I don't think it's a duplicate because mine is not a bytearray and I'm trying to convert in from a string to a byte format. — KowaiiNeko
– KowaiiNeko, Commented Jul 27, 2019 at 11:05

Gino Mempin · Accepted Answer · 2019-07-27 12:08:51Z

8

You should be reading the file as binary ("rb").

file = open('filename.txt', 'rb').read()
print(type(file))  # <class 'bytes'>
print(file)        # b'\x89PNG\r\n\x1a\n\x00\x00\x00\rIHDR\x00\x00\x01\x06\x0

with open("image.png", "wb") as img:
    img.write(file)

Now, I don't know why you have image bytes stored in a text file, but a better implementation would be to use image-related modules like Pillow to read-write image files:

from PIL import Image

file = Image.open("input.png")
file.save("output.png")

edited Jul 27, 2019 at 12:08

answered Jul 27, 2019 at 12:02

Gino Mempin

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