[rrd-developers] python2.3-rrd: would like to capture image written to standard out

[Tobias Oetiker]

Note that the graphv interface will get you the graph back into a
variable which then lets you do whatever you want with it ...

cheers
tobi

Today Sebastian Harl wrote:

> Hi,
>
> (This is a follow-up to Debian bug report #255720 - please see
> http://bugs.debian.org/255720 for details.)
>
> I've just realized that this bug report has not been forwarded to
> rrd-developers but the original author of the Python bindings. However,
> there has been no reply since then.
>
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 10:28:37AM -0600, Glen Mabey wrote:
> > In using rrdtool from within python, it would be very convenient if the
> > following command did what one would hope it would do:
> >
> > file =
> > rrdtool.graph('-','DEF:load=/var/lib/rrdcollect/stat.rrd:cpu_user:AVERAGE','LINE2:load#00a000:theload')
> >
> > For the present, I'll just use
> >         status,file = commands.getstatusoutput('rrdtool graph - DEF:load=/var/lib/rrdcollect/stat.rrd:cpu_user:AVERAGE LINE2:load#00a000:theload')
>
> I think this feature (i.e. getting the image into 'file' instead of on
> stdout) would make sense. However, I'm not into Python at all, so I hope
> that someone else steps up to implement that (or convince me that this
> feature does not make any sense ;-)).
>
> TIA,
> Sebastian
>
>

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