Solution 1:

If you manipulate with bytearrays, then you have to use io.BytesIO. Also you can read a file directly to a bytearray.

import os
import io
import PIL.Image as Image

from array import array

def readimage(path):
    count = os.stat(path).st_size / 2
    with open(path, "rb") as f:
        return bytearray(f.read())

bytes = readimage(path+extension)
image = Image.open(io.BytesIO(bytes))
image.save(savepath)