Re: PIL issue opening an image file

Bruno, the file being uploaded has nothing to do with the deployment server. When you edit your Google profile to change your avatar, does the file upload dialogue browse a Google server?

On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 4:50 PM, bruno desthuilliers <bruno.desthuilliers@gmail.com> wrote:

On 26 nov, 15:03, Sithembewena Lloyd Dube <zebr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I found the issue: it is the path to the image. When I change the problem
> line to
>
> image = Image.open(os.path.realpath('C:\Users\Lloyd\Desktop\Lloyd.png'))
>
> it works,

Well, kinda... accidentally...

> but I cannot hard code the path and I cannot predict where the
> user will try to upload a file from.

That's not exactly the problem, but the mere fact you think you could
solve your problem that way says a lot about your misunderstanding of
the HTTP protocol.

> Isn't there a way to dynamically get
> the path from the file upload dialogue where the user browses to it and
> selects it?

What would you do with this information ? Do you really think the
server on which your application will be deployed will have any access
to the client's filesystem ???

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