[reportlab-users] Combining reportlab's PDF and pypdf topartially create, partially copy?

[Ken Corey]

Yoann Roman wrote:

>> However, I would not expect a big performance gain from doing it in

>> memory rather than on disk.  Making and parsing PDF files are both

>> quite heavy jobs, and switching from a few disk-read-writes to

>> memory-read-writes is unlikely to make much difference.   Doing it in

>> memory can often reduce disk clutter or the number of configuration

>> options.

>>     

>

> Having never played with Google App Engine, I just assumed they didn't 

> provide access to a temp folder based on Ken's previous response.

>

>   


Yep, that's the gist of it.  You're not allowed to write files to disk.

This cStringIO thing is way sexy when viewed with the AppEngine's 
restrictions in mind!

Cool, thank you!

-Ken