Re: [Matplotlib-users] fileobject with Agg

[John H. <jdh...@ac...>]

>>>>> "Yves" == Yves Moisan <ym...@gr...> writes:

    Yves> Hi All, I'm striving to understand how I ca stuff a file
    Yves> object (e.g. StringIO) to print_figure for an Agg backend.
    Yves> backend_agg.py states : "If filename is a fileobject, write
    Yves> png to file object (thus you can, for example, write the png
    Yves> to stdout".

This has come up a number of times.  I worked on this once.  The
sticking point is that libpng takes a FILE pointer, and the cstringio
doesn't provide one.  There must be a way to do it, but I haven't
figured it out yet.  Please file a support request on the sf site to
remind us to figure it out!

Thanks,
JDH