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+'''Images to and from sqlite'''
+import io, sqlite3
+from PIL import Image
+
+#How to open a PIL image from a photostream
+with open('test-pattern.png', 'rb') as x:
+	foto = x.read()
+
+fotostream = io.BytesIO(foto)
+image = Image.open(fotostream)
+
+#And now for sqlite3
+
+conn = sqlite3.Connection('imagetest.db')
+cursor = conn.cursor()
+
+cursor.execute('CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS images ("name" TEXT, "file" BLOB);')
+
+#make sure you insert the bytes from foto, not the io object
+cursor.execute('INSERT INTO images VALUES (?,?)', ('testimage', foto))
+
+#retrieval
+cursor.execute('SELECT file from images')
+f2stream = io.BytesIO(cursor.fetchone()[0]) #fetchone returns a tuple
+f2img = Image.open(f2stream)
+f2img = f2img.convert('RGB') # original is RGBA and generates an error
+#see https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/issues/2609
+f2img.save('test-pattern_converted.jpg')
+
+#and save that data
+conn.commit()
+conn.close()
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