[reportlab-users] Performance Issue generating multiple QR codes

[Robin Becker]

On 18/09/2014 08:12, Anders Hammarquist wrote:
> In a message of Wed, 17 Sep 2014 21:18:53 +0200, Thomas Kremmel writes:
>> ah yes - and the bottleneck was not the qr code data generation, but
>> reportlab printing the qr code. it seems as it is quite a challenge for
>> reportlab to render the qr code when using QrCodeWidget. But rending .pngs
>> is super fast! Thus I would recommend rendering QR code images.
>
> Which version of reportlab are you using? I contributed some significant
> preformance improvements to the qrcode generation, but I'm not sure if
> they've made it to a released version yet. If you have the improved
> version, you will have a QrCode flowable in addition to the QrCodeWidget,
> which is sligtly faster.
>
> /Anders

Hi Anders,

your code patches are definitely in the repo at

https://bitbucket.org/rptlab/reportlab

and are also in the latest packages which are available at

https://www.reportlab.com/pypi/

although to get those one needs a login (see 
http://www.reportlab.com/accounts/register/).
-- 
Robin Becker