From 81afdf65eec5aab15f3321a0ae86a86fabef8f3e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Olivier Tilloy <olivier@tilloy.net>
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 14:01:08 +0100
Subject: IPTC: when setting the values of a tag, use its raw_values. Trying to
 re-convert its values is costly and more error-prone.

---
 src/pyexiv2/metadata.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'src')

diff --git a/src/pyexiv2/metadata.py b/src/pyexiv2/metadata.py
index c3ca2a6..ede1885 100644
--- a/src/pyexiv2/metadata.py
+++ b/src/pyexiv2/metadata.py
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ class ImageMetadata(object):
         # overwritten.
         if not isinstance(tag, IptcTag):
             raise TypeError('Expecting an IptcTag')
-        self._image.setIptcTagValues(tag.key, tag.to_string_list())
+        self._image.setIptcTagValues(tag.key, tag.raw_values)
         self._tags['iptc'][tag.key] = tag
         tag.metadata = self
 
-- 
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