From 603f2a226f43a500bceb9987ee319d6cc1da3f8a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Phil Elson <pelson.pub@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 11:59:52 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added the ``named`` method to a Tiffs tag getter.

---
 PIL/TiffImagePlugin.py | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/PIL/TiffImagePlugin.py b/PIL/TiffImagePlugin.py
index 03d4c94a3..6cda553e2 100644
--- a/PIL/TiffImagePlugin.py
+++ b/PIL/TiffImagePlugin.py
@@ -216,11 +216,30 @@ class ImageFileDirectory(collections.MutableMapping):
         self.reset()
 
     def reset(self):
+        #: Tags is an incomplete dictionary of the tags of the image.
+        #: For a complete dictionary, use teh as_dict method.
         self.tags = {}
         self.tagdata = {}
         self.tagtype = {} # added 2008-06-05 by Florian Hoech
         self.next = None
 
+    def __str__(self):
+        return str(self.as_dict())
+
+    def as_dict(self):
+        """Return a dictionary of the image's tags."""
+        return dict(self.items())
+
+    def named(self):
+        """Returns the complete tag dictionary, with named tags where posible."""
+        from . import TiffTags
+        result = {}
+        for tag_code, value in self.items():
+            tag_name = TiffTags.TAGS.get(tag_code, tag_code)
+            result[tag_name] = value
+        return result
+
+
     # dictionary API
 
     def __len__(self):