IOError: cannot identify image file

Question

Can anyone tell why PIL can't open this PNG file?

https://b75094855c6274df1cf8559f089f485661ae1156.googledrive.com/host/0B56ak7W-HmqAX005c3g5eTlBakE/8.png

I get IOError: cannot identify image file, and by looking at the code, it seems it tries PIL.PngImagePlugin.PngImageFile and corresponding "accept" function, and it returns False

I'm using version 1.1.6

Answer 1

I don't know what the problem is with PIL 1.1.6 but I just tested it with the latest Pillow 2.4.0 and this worked:

>>> from PIL import Image
>>> im = Image.open("8.png")
>>> im.show()

PIL in unmaintained and Pillow is an actively maintained and developed fork. To use Pillow, first uninstall PIL, then install Pillow.

Further installation instructions here: http://pillow.readthedocs.org/en/latest/installation.html