title: Python: upload Pillow Image to Firebase storage bucket
body: <p>I'm trying to figure out how to upload a <code>Pillow</code> <code>Image</code> instance to a Firebase storage bucket. Is this possible?</p>
  
  <p>Here's some code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>from PIL import Image
  
  image = Image.open(file)
  # how to upload to a firebase storage bucket?
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I know there's a <code>gcloud-python</code> library but does this support <code>Image</code> instances? Is converting the image to a string my only option?</p>