将str（从response.content获取）保存为图像时出错

Question

i am using the requests in python to hit an api and get a response:

    response = requests.request("POST", url, data=payload, headers=headers)

i have image data in response.content

    print type(response.content) 

gives:

<type 'str'>

now i have to save this data as an image file on my local : i am using ubuntu 16.04 and python 2.7

i am trying this:

    image=response.content
    result=open('img.png','wb')
    result.write(image)

but when trying to open the resulting file, this error is shown:

Fatal error reading PNG image file: Not a PNG file 

response.content looks like this (shortened sample):

eyJpZCI6IndzX2Y5YnVqaWVwamVzMnRyNWpjM2RpXzE1MTY2MTM5MjgzMzMi‌​LC.............YTZPZ‌​UVjWkwva0FBQUFBRWxGV‌​GtTdVFtQ0MifQ==

i have also tried encoding response.content to base64 encoding and then tried writing my image without success. what should i do?

Answer 1

Have you tried like this :

image=response.content
fh = open("imageToSave.png", "wb")
fh.write(base64.decodebytes(image))
fh.close()