[Image-SIG] PIL.Image and binary data in SQL

[Fredrik Lundh]

klint price wrote:

> Does anyone know how use the PIL.Image to read binary image
> data from a database, create thumbnails, and out put the thumbnails
> to the browser using a binarywrite, or something to that effect?
> Using IIS5, MSSQL 7, and ASP.

lots of people have written web gallery tools based on PIL; a
google search should help you find plenty of sample code.

the PIL parts could look something like this:

    import StringIO

    data = read_from_database()

    file = StringIO.StringIO(data)

    image = Image.open(file)
    image.thumbnail((128, 128))

    outfile = StringIO.StringIO()
    image.save(outfile, "JPEG")

    data = outfile.getvalue()

    write_to_web_client(data)

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