chris wrote: > I'm creating a data plot and need to display the image to a web page. > What's the best way of doing this without having to save the image to > disk? I already have a mod_python script that outputs the data in > tabular format, but I haven't been able to find anything on adding a > generated image.
You could use data: URIs [1]. For example, a 43-byte single pixel GIF becomes this URI: <data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2FyH5BAEAAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw%3D%3D> They don't have universal browser support, but that might not be a problem in this case. As for generating them with Python, I'm not sure... I just used Hixie's data: URI kitchen [2] for the above example. [1] <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2397> [2] <http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/cgi/data/data> -- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
