how to return a StringIO of an Image

[Bengt Richter]

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 20:38:43 +0000 (UTC), JCM <joshway_without_spam at myway.com> wrote:

>Bengt Richter <bokr at oz.net> wrote:
>> On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 16:45:39 +0100, "Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:
>
>>>"Christoph" wrote:
>>>
>>>>    image.save('test', 'JPEG')
>>>>    image=StringIO(image.????()) # what's the right method?
>>>>    return image
>>>>
>>>> Any hints? Thanx!
>>>
>>>    file = StringIO()
>>>    image.save(file, "JPEG")
>>>    return file.getvalue()
>>>
>> You are recommending shadowing 'file' ?!
>
>Why not?  Python is a block-structured language.  New builtins can
>arrive in any release.
I'd say a reason is to avoid the time you will do it by habit and get a surprise.
But yes, there's no technical reason you can't, if you don't want to use the original
binding in that scope.

Regards,
Bengt Richter