How to solve IOError:broken data stream when reading image file?
Im working under Ubuntu 11.04. I'm trying to work with PIL in my Django project. Sadly PIL cannot load my image.
Here is the PIL setup summary:
PIL 1.1.7 SETUP SUMMARY
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version 1.1.7
platform linux2 2.7.1+ (r271:86832, Apr 11 2011, 18:05:24)
[GCC 4.5.2]
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*** TKINTER support not available
--- JPEG support available
--- ZLIB (PNG/ZIP) support available
--- FREETYPE2 support available
--- LITTLECMS support available
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I tried coding in python shell and it returns the error when I called load() function:
>>> import PIL
>>> import Image
>>> import _imaging
>>> i = Image.open("someimage.jpg")
>>> i
<JpegImagePlugin.JpegImageFile image mode=RGB size=600x599 at 0x9646C0C>
>>> i.load()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
File "/home/joseph/Desktop/thesis/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/PIL/ImageFile.py", line 215, in load
raise_ioerror(e)
File "/home/joseph/Desktop/thesis/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/PIL/ImageFile.py", line 52, in raise_ioerror
raise IOError(message + " when reading image file")
IOError: broken data stream when reading image file
I am also working in a Virtual Environment, I am having problems with uploading jpeg image on my Django project. PNG works fine but it rejects JPEG
Answer
sudo apt-get install libjpeg8-dev
rebuild PIL and install again.