The Image object's data attribute is what you want. AFAIK, you need to use consruct a StringIO object with the data in from the data attribute (it makes a chunk of data look like a file object). PIL doesnt seem to support any other method of reading a chunk of data but from an object that looks like a file.

-----Original Message----- From: Anders Lide'n [mailto:al@netg.se] Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 2:54 AM To: zope-dev@zope.org Subject: [Zope-dev] Problem with reading zope objects from external method.

I want to draw a circle on a picture that I have stored inside zope. Since the image manipulation module (PIL) is a module not usable from inside zope I have to use an external method.

The external method now needs to read in the file (the picture) and this file is located inside zope as a zope object (image file). Hence : I need to get the external method to read a zope object. But I continually fail to read the zope object, how do I do?

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