you should use the _getexif()
method of that comes bundled in PIL's Image module:
>>> image = Image.open(os.getcwd() + '/canon-ixus.jpg')
>>> image._getexif()
{36864: '0210', 37121: '\x01\x02\x03\x00', .... }
or also image.info['exif']
:
>>> image.info['exif'][0:20]
'Exif\x00\x00II*\x00\x08\x00\x00\x00\t\x00\x0f\x01\x02\x00'