cbmeeks wrote: > I have created an image hosting site and when a user uploads an image, > I want a service to run on the server to create a few thumbnails while > the user does other things. > > My stupid host (pair.com) doesn't have PIL installed and I'm too much > of a stupid newbie to figure out how to get it to work with them > (access denied while installing it, of course). > > Also, they don't have any python interface setup for GD. > > Anyway, I don't know what my options are. I'm thinking: > > 1) Find another host with mod_python, PIL, and other Python goodies > 2) use PHP to create the thumbnails > 3) Open the images into a buffer and try to do the calculations > myself
Have you checked to see if Imagemagick is available? You could use the "convert" command via os.system or something along those lines... Dave -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
