Question

I’m trying to write a python function to parse the width and height from a jpeg file. The code I currently have looks like this

import struct

image = open('images/image.jpg','rb')
image.seek(199)
#reverse hex to deal with endianness...
hex = image.read(2)[::-1]+image.read(2)[::-1]
print(struct.unpack('HH',hex))
image.close()

There are a couple of problems with this though, firstly I need to look through the file to work out where to read from (after ff c0 00 11 08), and secondly I need to avoid picking up data from embedded thumbnails. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

The JPEG section of this function might be useful: http://code.google.com/p/bfg-pages/source/browse/trunk/pages/getimageinfo.py

jpeg.read(2)
b = jpeg.read(1)
try:
    while (b and ord(b) != 0xDA):
        while (ord(b) != 0xFF): b = jpeg.read(1)
        while (ord(b) == 0xFF): b = jpeg.read(1)
        if (ord(b) >= 0xC0 and ord(b) <= 0xC3):
            jpeg.read(3)
            h, w = struct.unpack(">HH", jpeg.read(4))
            break
        else:
            jpeg.read(int(struct.unpack(">H", jpeg.read(2))[0])-2)
        b = jpeg.read(1)
    width = int(w)
    height = int(h)
except struct.error:
    pass
except ValueError:
    pass