I am writing a web server app that creates charts among
> other things. I am trying to get rid of the temporary file
> that I use to transmit the figures created with matplotlib
> to the actual web server. Although print_figure says "If
> filename is a fileobject, write png to file object (thus
> you can, for example, write the png to stdout)" I can't
> successfully write anything to stdout. Anyone knows an
> example or can give me some hint what I can do to get rid
> of the tempfile?
Short answer: no known way to do this currently, though we'd like to
figure it out. As far as I know (and could very well be wrong)
libpng requires a FILE*, which StringIO and cStringIO do not provide.
JDH