Hi, I posted this to [Image-SIG] a while ago but did not got a reply so I assume it may not have been the appropriate list. If this is again not the right list please direct me to the proper list.
How to read and write EXIF data from images has been discussed several times on the [Image-SIG] list before but I could not find a discussion on the problem I've run into when using multiple of these. In short: after adding a comment to the EXIF header using the setComment(...) and writeMetadata(...) methods of pyeviv2 (http://tilloy.net/dev/pyexiv2/doc/release-0.1.2/pyexiv2.htm) the EXIF header is altered in such a way that it is no longer possible to read the EXIF header with EXIF.py. Furthermore imghdr does not even recognize it as a JPEG anymore. >>> import imghdr >>> type = imghdr.what('DSC02299.JPG') >>> print type jpeg >>> type = imghdr.what('20070623-171634-DSC-H5.jpg') >>> print type None Also the file command in Linux no longer recognizes the EXIF header: before: $ file DSC02299.JPG DSC02299.JPG: JPEG image data, EXIF standard 2.21 after: $ file 20070623-171634-DSC-H5.jpg 20070623-171634-DSC-H5.jpg: JPEG image data (Note: part of the processing done is to rename the image based on the date in the EXIF header) I switched from EXIF.py to pyexiv2 because the first does not provide a method to add a comment to the header. Considering the fact that EXIF.py appears to be no longer under active development I simply replaced all my calls to EXIF.py with calls to the relevant pyexeiv2 methods. However imghdr is part of the standard library so the fact it will not recognize the image anymore makes me wonder if maybe pyexiv2 is doing something "wrong" that might cause other problems later on. Can anybody provide insight into this? Thanks in advance Bram -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
