Commit 05001056 authored by Gabriel Hurley's avatar Gabriel Hurley
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Fixed #12369 -- Improved example to account for environments where cStringIO... 

Fixed #12369 -- Improved example to account for environments where cStringIO is not available. Thanks to rubic for the report and niall for the patch.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@14076 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
parent 6400026f

docs/howto/outputting-pdf.txt

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@@ -101,7 +101,11 @@ cStringIO_ library as a temporary holding place for your PDF file. The cStringIO 
library provides a file-like object interface that is particularly efficient.

Here's the above "Hello World" example rewritten to use ``cStringIO``::



    # Fall back to StringIO in environments where cStringIO is not available

    try:

        from cStringIO import StringIO

    except ImportError:

        from StringIO import StringIO

    from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas

    from django.http import HttpResponse