[reportlab-users] canvas.drawImage with unicode string

[pier carteri]

Thank you Robin!
For the future, is this list the right place for this kind of problem
or  there is a bettere place for this?

Regards

Pier

On 11/4/06, Robin Becker <robin at reportlab.com> wrote:
> pier carteri wrote:
> > but the check fails if you pass it an  unicode string, and so the
> > program wrongly recognise the input as an ImageReader.
> >
> > I suggest a check like
> >        if type(image) in [type(''), type(u'')]:
> > or
> >        if type(image) == type('') or type(image) == type(u''):
> >
> >
> > The use of unicode string for path may seems uncommon but it isn't.
> > For example my program gets paths from an xml file parsed using
> > elementtree. Elementtree returns unicode strings.
> >
> > Hope this helps!
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Pier
> .......
>
> OK I turned the test around since we're only allowed an ImageReader or a
> filename it gets used like
>
>         if isinstance(image,ImageReader):
>                 rawdata = image.getRGBData()
>                 name = _digester(rawdata+str(mask))
>         else:
>                 #filename, use it
>                 name = _digester('%s%s' % (image, mask))
>
> --
> Robin Becker
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