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| author | Gabriel Hurley <gabehr@gmail.com> | 2010-10-09 10:23:48 +0000 |
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| committer | Gabriel Hurley <gabehr@gmail.com> | 2010-10-09 10:23:48 +0000 |
| commit | 4241197b40c0facd38a672eaf7594a01a091edae (patch) | |
| tree | bcf10e9258a162d81d978cceda6fe88709385bd1 /docs | |
| parent | a96e50b76b38edb94356bb5d346ef96067175906 (diff) | |
[1.2.X] Improved example to account for environments where cStringIO is not available. Thanks to rubic for the report and niall for the patch.
Backport of [14076] from trunk.
git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/branches/releases/1.2.X@14077 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/howto/outputting-pdf.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/howto/outputting-pdf.txt b/docs/howto/outputting-pdf.txt index 32e38aebc6..67950d03f2 100644 --- a/docs/howto/outputting-pdf.txt +++ b/docs/howto/outputting-pdf.txt @@ -101,7 +101,11 @@ cStringIO_ library as a temporary holding place for your PDF file. The cStringIO library provides a file-like object interface that is particularly efficient. Here's the above "Hello World" example rewritten to use ``cStringIO``:: - from cStringIO import StringIO + # Fall back to StringIO in environments where cStringIO is not available + try: + from cStringIO import StringIO + except ImportError: + from StringIO import StringIO from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas from django.http import HttpResponse |