Python/Django download Image from URL, modify, and save to ImageField

Question

I\'ve been looking for a way to download an image from a URL, preform some image manipulations (resize) actions on it, and then save it to a django ImageField. Using the tw

Answer 1

In an attempt to kill 2 birds with 1 stone. Why not use a (c)StringIO object instead of a NamedTemporaryFile? You won't have to store it on disk anymore and I know for a fact that something like this works (I use similar code myself).

from cStringIO import StringIO
img_temp = StringIO()
inImage.save(img_temp, 'PNG')
img_temp.seek(0)

file_object = File(img_temp, filename)