glitch problems

bpythonish

import Image
import StringIO
import imager

img1 = imager.get_image1()
img = Image.open(StringIO.StringIO(img1))
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<input>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/swartzcr/Documents/coding/Projects/revisit/local/lib/python2.7/s
ite-packages/PIL/Image.py", line 1980, in open
    raise IOError("cannot identify image file")
IOError: cannot identify image file

imager

import base64

def get_image1():
    with open("me at toor.jpg", 'rb') as image_file:
        encoded_string = base64.b64encode(image_file.read())
    return encoded_string

def get_image2():
    with open("georgetown.png", 'rb') as image_file:
        encoded_string = base64.b64encode(image_file.read())
    return encoded_string