Re: ReportLab and Django Examples

Duh. I should have thought of the BytesIO... but I have verified that your
method works!

Thanks!

On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 12:35 PM Andy Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Mike,
>
> Under Python 3, you need to use the BytesIO class, since PDF is a
> binary format.   Since we're writing file-like data, StringIO is no
> longer appropriate.  This works....
>
>     import io
>     buf = io.BytesIO()
>     rml2pdf.go(rml, outputFileName=buf)
>
>     # to retrieve the data...
>     buf.seek(0)
>     rawdata = buf.read() .  # gives you back the bytes
>
> I'll try to create a full minimal Django example in the next day or so
> and update the manual...
> On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 at 20:56, Mike Hostetler <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > I got something that works...
> >
> >    fp,fname = tempfile.mkstemp()
> >    rml2pdf.go(rml,outputFileName=fname)
> >    buf = open(fname,encoding = "ISO-8859-1")
> >
> > But I don't like creating the tempfile. I think rml2pdf.go should take a
> StringIO
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 2:13 PM Andy Robinson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 at 19:43, Mike Hostetler <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > I knew it waa old but that was all you had...
> >> > I'm using Python 3.6.6 and Django 2.1.3.
> >>
> >> Sorry, we'd never spotted it before, as all of our customer projects
> >> are on 2.7.  I'll try to get a corrected snippet out tomorrow..
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