How can I retrieve an image from a url and convert it to a PIL object

Question

import urllib.request
import Image


urllib.request.urlretrieve("https://www.spriters-resource.com/download/50365/", "mario_image.PNG")
img = Image.open("mario_image.PNG")  

I'm wondering how can I retrieve an image from a url and immediately convert it to a PIL Image without having to load the image from the file

Answer 1

import requests
from PIL import Image

r = requests.get(URL, stream=True)
img = Image.open(r.raw)