How do I serve an image from a python script?

[piet at cs.uu.nl]

>>>>> haaserd <haaserd at yahoo.com> (h) writes:

h> Hi,
h> I am trying to serve an image from a Python script using Apache under
h> Windows.  My simple HTML statement:

h>     <img src="ShowPict.py?fn=xxx"  alt="a picture">

h> ...and my simple script:

h> #!c:/Python20/python.exe
h> import sys

h> def pix():
h>     n = 'c:/My Pictures/Sample.jpg'
h>     p = open(n,'rb')
h>     apix = p.read()
h>     p.close()
h>     sys.stdout.write("content-type: image/jpeg\n\n")
import os, msvcrt
msvcrt.setmode(sys.stdout.fileno(),os.O_BINARY)
h>     sys.stdout.write(apix)
h>     sys.stdout.flush()

h> if __name__ == '__main__':
h>     pix()
-- 
Piet van Oostrum <piet at cs.uu.nl>
URL: http://www.cs.uu.nl/~piet [PGP]
Private email: P.van.Oostrum at hccnet.nl