From 11edfc55ea954174be05d902dae91bc96dfddd41 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fabian Kropfhamer <54098356+fkropfhamer@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2020 17:49:57 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] added check if before reading file

---
 tweepy/api.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tweepy/api.py b/tweepy/api.py
index a424a39..0df8da3 100644
--- a/tweepy/api.py
+++ b/tweepy/api.py
@@ -220,7 +220,9 @@ class API(object):
             :allowed_param:
         """
         f = kwargs.pop('file', None)
-        h = f.read(32)
+        h = None
+        if f:
+            h = f.read(32)
 
         file_type = imghdr.what(filename, h=h) or mimetypes.guess_type(filename)[0]
         if file_type == 'gif':
-- 
2.25.1