import os from django.conf import settings from django.core.files.base import ContentFile from imagekit.lib import Image, StringIO import pickle from .models import Photo def get_image_file(): """ See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna http://sipi.usc.edu/database/database.php?volume=misc&image=12 """ path = os.path.join(settings.MEDIA_ROOT, 'lenna.png') return open(path, 'r+b') def create_image(): return Image.open(get_image_file()) def create_instance(model_class, image_name): instance = model_class() img = get_image_file() file = ContentFile(img.read()) instance.original_image = file instance.original_image.save(image_name, file) instance.save() img.close() return instance def create_photo(name): return create_instance(Photo, name) def pickleback(obj): pickled = StringIO() pickle.dump(obj, pickled) pickled.seek(0) return pickle.load(pickled)