Is it possible to bypass the download of the image for further processing?

Question

Python

The program is supposed to process the image at the given URL.
Data contains a URL as a list element
. Now I write the received data to a file, then I open it again (in the same code) and perform the necessary manipulations.
Is something similar as described below possible?

img2 = requests.get(data[1].strip()[0:-6])
img = io.imread(img2.content)

I will say right away - the above code knocks out an error

"TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'"

Is it possible to avoid the seemingly unnecessary writing to a file?
PS Tried b = bytearray.fromhex(str(img2.content))
Caught

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Py\Projects\1\photoexec.py", line 40, in <module>
    b = bytearray.fromhex(img2.content)
TypeError: fromhex() argument must be str, not bytes

Answer 1

Thanks for the help sim3x
https://2.python-requests.org/en/master/user/quick...
img = io.imread(BytesIO(img2.content))