[Zope] Imorting Dynamic Pic into Zope

[Jeff Rush]

On Wed, 27 Oct 1999 17:08:49 -0500, Stephan Richter wrote:

>I hav a problem:
>I am generating with PIL or GD an image using an external method. The picture
>gets saved on the local File System. How can I import the picture into Zope, so
>I can display it. (Note: The picture has a short lifetime and it is not
>necessary to add it to the ZODB.)

Since you are comfortable with external methods, just do the following
in yours:

    from ImageFile import ImageFile

    <snip rest of your external method and decide whether to freshen image>
    ...
    return ImageFile('/my/image/dir/yourimage.gif', globals())

-Jeff Rush