| Extracted from Pike v7.8 release 866 at 2018-02-09.

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# Method Image.load_file()

Method load_file

  `string load_file(void|object|string file)`

Description

  Loads in a file, which need not be an image file. If no argument is given the data will be taken from stdin. If a file object is given, it will be read to the end of the file. If a string is given the function will first attempt to load a file with that name, then try to download data with the string as URL. Zero will be returned upon failure.