Problem with Image: Opening a file

Tue Feb 5 05:03:05 EST 2008

On Feb 4, 10:43 pm, Graham Dumpleton <Graham.Dumple... at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Feb 4, 6:51 pm,mcl<mcl.off... at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I am obviously doing something stupid or not understanding the
> > difference between HTML file references and python script file
> > references.
>
> > I am trying to create a thumbnail of an existing .jpg file. It is in
> > the directory 'temp', which is below my script
>
> > I can display the file with <img>, but Image.open does not see it.
>
> > I think it is probably a path problem, but I have tried '/temp/
> > fred.jpg' and './temp/fred.jpg'
>
> > Can anyone help, please
>
> > PS I am usingmod_pythonon a Linux Apache 2 and python 2.5
>
> > CODE =================================================
>
> > import os
> > import StringIO
>
> > def index(req):
> >     main(req)
>
> > def writeHTMLHeader(req):
>
> >     req.content_type = "text/html"
> >     req.write('<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//
> > EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">')
> >     req.write('<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en"
> > xml:lang="en">')
> >     req.write('<head><title>My Tests: Python</title></head>')
> >     req.write('<body>')
>
> > def writeHTMLTrailer(req):
> >     req.write('</body>')
> >     req.write('</html>')
>
> > def writelineHTML(req, htmlMSG):
> >     req.write(htmlMSG + '<BR>\n')
>
> > def createThumb(req, infile, maxwidth, maxheight):
> >     import Image
> >     import os
> >     infile = "temp/fred.jpg"
> >     outfile = "temp/fred_th.jpg"
> >     if infile != outfile:
>
> >         writelineHTML(req, "Opening %s" % str(infile))
> >         writelineHTML(req, '<img src="%s"></img>' % infile)  # Finds
> > File OK ***********************
> >         im =
> > Image.open(infile)                                             #
> > ERRORS on the same file *********************
> >         im.thumbnail((maxwidth,maxheight),Image.ANTIALIAS)
> >         im.save(outfile, "JPEG")
> >         writelineHTML(req, "Created: " + str(outfile))
> >         writelineHTML(req, '<img src="%s"></img>' % outfile)
>
> >         return outfile
>
> >     return ""
>
> > def showThumbnail(req, picture):
> >     myThumb = createThumb(req, picture, 60, 60)
> >     if myThumb:
> >         writelineHTML(req, '<img src="%s></img>' % myThumb)
> >     else:
> >         writelineHTML(req, "Thumb %s Not Created" % myThumb)
>
> > def main(req):
> >     writeHTMLHeader(req)
> >     picture = "temp/fred.jpg"
> >     showThumbnail(req, picture)
> >     writeHTMLTrailer(req)
>
> > ERROR ==============================================
>
> >   File "/home/mcl/htdocs/timslists/thumbs2.py", line 33, in
> > createThumb
> >     im = Image.open(infile)
>
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PIL/Image.py", line 1888, in
> > open
> >     fp = __builtin__.open(fp, "rb")
>
> > IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'temp/fred.jpg'
>
> > Richard
>
> Code under mod_python will typically run as Apache user. This means
> that when writing files the location you use must be writable to the
> Apache user. Do note though that the working directory of Apache is
> not guaranteed and you must always use an absolute path to the
> location you are saving files, you cannot reliably use relative paths
> like you are.
>
> BTW, do you perhaps mean '/tmp/fred.jpg'? There is no '/temp'
> directory on Linux boxes.
>
> Graham

Graham,

Thanks for the explanation.

The answer is/was

Python script  os.path.dirname(__file__) + '/mydir/temp/fred.jpg'
HTML  'temp/fred.jpg'

Thanks again

Richard