On Jun 13, 4:41 pm, kafooster <dmoze... at gmail.com> wrote: > Wanderer: by *.raw I mean images with .raw extension, pure pixel data > without headerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_image_format >> That is a clear and nice code however I think Image.open cannot > handle .raw since i get error >> image1 = Image.open("hand.raw", "rb") > File "D:\Python27\lib\site-packages\PIL\Image.py", line 1947, in > open > raise ValueError("bad mode") > ValueError: bad mode Try dropping the "rb". I don't use it in my code. I copied it from the OP.