Hello. This is the full work version. Do yuo have: - Pyton, PostgreSQL, Psycopg2 - PostgreSQL dababase named "MyDATABASE" with table named "phonebook" - Table "phonebook" have this columns: "lastname" [TEXT datatype] and "c2image" [BYTEA datatype] - Do you have an jpeg file named "sun.jpg" on c:/
Open db connection >>> import psycopg2 >>> conn_string = "host='localhost' dbname='MyDATABASE' user='MyUSER' >>> password='MyPASSWORD'" >>> conn = psycopg2.connect(conn_string) Write image on database (binary data on bytea column) >>> mypic=open('c:/sun.jpg','rb').read() >>> cursor = conn.cursor() >>> cursor.execute("INSERT INTO phonebook(lastname,c2image) VALUES (%s,%s);", >>> ('MyPICTURENAME', psycopg2.Binary(mypic))) >>> conn.commit() Read image from database and write to a file >>> cursor = conn.cursor() >>> cursor.execute("SELECT (c2image) FROM phonebook WHERE >>> lastname='MyPICTURENAME';") >>> mypic2 = cursor.fetchone() >>> open('c:/copyofsun.jpg', 'wb').write(str(mypic2[0])) Close db connection >>> cursor.close() >>> conn.close() -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list