help: loading binary image data into memory

[rixdelei]

Hi there!
Tried successfully downloading data into memory from internet using the
urllib module like this:
....
import urllib
import cStringIO

url_file = urllib.urlopen(url)
img = cStringIO.StringIO(url_file.read())
....
Was wondering HOW could I accomplish the same results using the ftplib
module
-> retrbinary( command, callback[, maxblocksize[, rest]])
WITHOUT saving any information to the disk;

Will appreciate your comments,
TIA+BRGDS

 

[Jeff Epler]

probably something like this: (untested)
def make_ftplib_callback(f):
def callback(block): f.write(block)
return callback
img = cStringIO.StringIO()
retrbinary( "get ???", make_ftplib_callback(img))

Jeff

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[Robert Kern]

probably something like this: (untested)
def make_ftplib_callback(f):
def callback(block): f.write(block)
return callback
img = cStringIO.StringIO()
retrbinary( "get ???", make_ftplib_callback(img))

Ummm, how about

img = cStringIO.StringIO()
retrbinary("get ???", img.write)

?

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Robert Kern
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Are the graves of dreams allowed to die."
-- Richard Harter

 

[Fredrik Lundh]

Ummm, how about

img = cStringIO.StringIO()
retrbinary("get ???", img.write)

if you want some additional code to run during download, you can
always do something like:

img = cStringIO.StringIO()
def callback(block):
sys.stdout.write(".")
img.write(block)
if img.tell() > LIMIT:
raise IOError("too much data")
retrbinary(..., callback())

(you don't really have to create a factory if all you need is a single
function...)

you can also get rid of the cStringIO module :

img = []
retrbinary(..., img.append)
# img is now a list of string chunks

might be more efficient, depending on what you plan to do with the
data once you've loaded it.

and finally,

img = urllib.urlopen("ftp://...").read()

might also work.

</F>

 

[rixdelei]

tx vm guys, helped a lot