Merge pull request #6856 from radarhere/load_truncated_images

python-pillow · Jan 5, 2023 · b6c7a83 · b6c7a83
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diff --git a/src/PIL/__init__.py b/src/PIL/__init__.py
@@ -75,6 +75,10 @@
 class UnidentifiedImageError(OSError):
     """
     Raised in :py:meth:`PIL.Image.open` if an image cannot be opened and identified.
+
+    If a PNG image raises this error, setting :data:`.ImageFile.LOAD_TRUNCATED_IMAGES`
+    to true may allow the image to be opened after all. The setting will ignore missing
+    data and checksum failures.
     """
 
     pass