TiffTags Module

The TiffTags module exposes many of the standard TIFF metadata tag numbers, names, and type information.

PIL.TiffTags.lookup(tag)[source]
Parameters

tag – Integer tag number

Returns

Taginfo namedtuple, From the TAGS_V2 info if possible, otherwise just populating the value and name from TAGS. If the tag is not recognized, “unknown” is returned for the name

New in version 3.1.0.

class PIL.TiffTags.TagInfo[source]
__init__(self, value=None, name='unknown', type=None, length=0, enum=None)
Parameters

  • value – Integer Tag Number

  • name – Tag Name

  • type – Integer type from PIL.TiffTags.TYPES

  • length – Array length: 0 == variable, 1 == single value, n = fixed

  • enum – Dict of name:integer value options for an enumeration

cvt_enum(self, value)[source]
Parameters

value – The enumerated value name

Returns

The integer corresponding to the name.

New in version 3.0.0.

PIL.TiffTags.TAGS_V2: dict

The TAGS_V2 dictionary maps 16-bit integer tag numbers to PIL.TiffTags.TagInfo tuples for metadata fields defined in the TIFF spec.

New in version 3.0.0.

PIL.TiffTags.TAGS: dict

The TAGS dictionary maps 16-bit integer TIFF tag number to descriptive string names. For instance:

>>> from PIL.TiffTags import TAGS
>>> TAGS[0x010e]
'ImageDescription'

This dictionary contains a superset of the tags in TAGS_V2, common EXIF tags, and other well known metadata tags.

PIL.TiffTags.TYPES: dict

The TYPES dictionary maps the TIFF type short integer to a human readable type name.

PIL.TiffTags.LIBTIFF_CORE: list

A list of supported tag IDs when writing using LibTIFF.