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Spring Cleaning 2026 Day 5: exifmodern (converting exiftool to python) (opens in new tab)

Converting exiftool to Python exifmodern We did it. I’ve been trying to do this on and off for five or six years now. But there’s one shark in the room: exiftool is over 300,000 lines of perl and it’s not getting any younger. I think I first used exiftool around 2004 or 2005 when I was creating personal photo album galleries online and I’ve used it on and off probably a couple of times every year since then. My previous pattern for using exiftool from reasonbly modern projects is to wrap cont...

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