I came up with the following problem: CODE A works right now.. I am saving a png file called chart.png locally, and then I am loading it into the proprietary function (which I do not have access).
However, in CODE B, am trying to use cStringIO.StringIO() so that I do not have to write the file "chart.png" to the disk. But I cannot find a way to pass it to the pproprietaryfunction because it is expecting a real filename like "chart.png" (it looks like it even uses the split function to identify the extension).
CODE A (code running right now):
file = "chart.png"
pylab.savefig(file, format='png')
a = proprietaryfunction.add(file)
CODE B (what I am trying to do - and does not work):
file = cStringIO.StringIO()
pylab.savefig(file, format='png')
a = proprietaryfunction.add(file)
How can I make the use of cStringIO.StringIO() transparent to the proprietary function? Is there anyway that I can emulate a virtual file system in memory for this?
