#!/usr/bin/env python #encoding=utf-8 import cStringIO, urllib2, Image url = 'http://www.01happy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/bg.png' file = urllib2.urlopen(url) tmpIm = cStringIO.StringIO(file.read()) im = Image.open(tmpIm) print im.format, im.size, im.mode #//python/8463