Re: How to get an exif value in Python

[Felix Riemann <friemann gnome org>]

Am Donnerstag, den 26.02.2015, 22:21 +0100 schrieb Fliggs:
> Hello everybody,

Hi!

> i am just sitting some hours on this problem now, and i can't get it solved:
> - how can i access an exif tag from a python plugin?
>
> I a not able to get the exifdata like this:
>
> myimage = window.get_image()
> myexifdata = myimage.get_exif_info()
>
> get_exif_info() is an unknown function...
>
> What am i doing wrong?
>
> Thanks for your help!

You're not doing anything wrong. The Exif data is not currently
available via the Python interface, as we don't have a Python interface
to libexif.

We once attempted to wrap the ExifData object into a GObject container
but to be useful we would have had to replicate big chunks of libexif's
API.

I am not sure if it makes sense to start another attempt at it right
now, since I'd rather switch to (g)Exiv2 anyway, which would also
produce Python bindings.

Regards

Felix