import requests import core_utils import get_from_reddit def change_bots_avatar(): image = None while not image: image = get_from_reddit.get_image(boards='smuganimegirls') extension = image.split('.')[-1] local_smug = "/tmp/smug.{}".format(extension) if extension.lower() in ['png', 'jpg']: # save an image locally return open(core_utils.download_image(image, local_smug), 'rb').read() else: image = None