One reason why I don't quite like the idea is because I am writing a reporting webapp and there are many different graphs that can generated. Needing to write 2 views for 1 type of graph can get pretty tedious!
On Apr 11, 6:39 pm, Xavier Ordoquy <xordo...@linovia.com> wrote: > Le 11 avr. 2011 à 12:21, nai a écrit : > > > > > > > > > > > This is the give example from Matplotlib for Django: > > > def simple(request): > > import random > > > from matplotlib.backends.backend_agg import FigureCanvasAgg as > > FigureCanvas > > from matplotlib.figure import Figure > > from matplotlib.dates import DateFormatter > > > fig=Figure() > > ax=fig.add_subplot(111) > > x=[] > > y=[] > > now=datetime.datetime.now() > > delta=datetime.timedelta(days=1) > > for i in range(10): > > x.append(now) > > now+=delta > > y.append(random.randint(0, 1000)) > > ax.plot_date(x, y, '-') > > ax.xaxis.set_major_formatter(DateFormatter('%Y-%m-%d')) > > fig.autofmt_xdate() > > canvas=FigureCanvas(fig) > > response=django.http.HttpResponse(content_type='image/png') > > canvas.print_png(response) > > return response > > > Is there anyway I can return the image like this `return > > render_to_response('template.html', {'graph': <graph generated by > > matplotlib or some other graphing package>}` > > Hi, > > Is there any reasons why you couldn't have a view that would just render the > image and the other one that would have a img tag pointing to the first view ? > It is possible to embed an image in the web page, but I'm sure it goes > against the best practices. > > Regards, > Xavier. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.