Displaying QR Code PIL Image object

[Ben Sharif]

I am generating a qr code using python module qrcode.

I am not needing to store the qr code image in a database, just generate it each time.

controller:

def create_qr():

    text = "hello world qr code"

    qr_code = qrcode.make(text)   

view:

<img src="{{=qr_code}}">

doing the above, the controller is returning a PIL Image object but trying to embed that image is producing no actual image. how do I get web2py to display a PIL image object in the view?

[Massimo Di Pierro]

<img src="...">

is supposed to be a link to an image, not an image. If you want to inline the binary data you can try:

import base64

encoded_qr_code = base64.b64encode(qr_code)

and

<img src="data:image/gif;base64,{{=encoded_qr_code}}">

May not work on older browsers.