From 4241197b40c0facd38a672eaf7594a01a091edae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gabriel Hurley Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 10:23:48 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] [1.2.X] Improved example to account for environments where cStringIO is not available. Thanks to rubic for the report and niall for the patch. Backport of [14076] from trunk. git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/branches/releases/1.2.X@14077 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37 --- docs/howto/outputting-pdf.txt | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/howto/outputting-pdf.txt b/docs/howto/outputting-pdf.txt index 32e38aebc6..67950d03f2 100644 --- a/docs/howto/outputting-pdf.txt +++ b/docs/howto/outputting-pdf.txt @@ -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``:: - from cStringIO import StringIO + # 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