Re: [Zope3-Users] problems using os.popen2 in a heavily used utility

2007-03-08 Thread Stephan Richter
On Tuesday 30 January 2007 15:57, Shaar Gabriel wrote:
 i read somewhere that os.popen2 is not friendly towards twisted framework,
 and that twisted.internet.reactor.spawnProcess or
 twisted.internet.process.Process should be used.
 i can't undersnad what format the parameter childfds should look like when
 calling those. could somebody show me the equivalent of (stdin, stdout) =
 os.popen2() ?

Why don't you use PIL? Then you do not need to create a new sub-process and do 
it all within your well-contained Python thread.

Regards,
Stephan
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[Zope3-Users] problems using os.popen2 in a heavily used utility

2007-01-30 Thread Shaar Gabriel
Hi.
i have a utility that generates thumbnails for objects that can be displayed 
as an image (faxes).

the part that generates the thumbnail :

def generate_thumbnail(self, data):
Return a smaller view of the data stream

# if data stream is a djvu file, convert it to ps before 
thumbnailing.
magic = getUtility(IFileMagic)
mimetype = magic.getMimeType(data)
if mimetype == image/x.djvu:
(stdin, stdout) = os.popen2(djvups - -)
stdin.write(data)
stdin.close()
data = stdout.read()
stdout.close()
# Explenation of convert command line attributes :
# -resize 150 : resize, while keeping aspect ratio, to a width 
of 150 pixels
# -[1] : input file in stdin (-)  to extract only frame 1: 
-[1]).
#format detected automatically from data stream
# png:- : output file on stdout (-) in png (png:) format
(stdin, stdout) = os.popen2(convert -quiet -resize 150 - 
png:-)
stdin.write(data)
stdin.close()
thumbnail = stdout.read()
stdout.close()
return thumbnail

this utility is used by a view that displays a grid of a few thumbnails.
when the view is loaded, several thumbnails are generated at once. (calls from 
the img tags to an /@@thumbnail view on the obect)
some thumbnail make it through (very few), the rest fail with :

2007-01-30T21:54:06 ERROR SiteError 
http://moobox:8080/2007/inbox/05512/@@thumbnail
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File /usr/lib/zope-3.3.0/lib/python/zope/publisher/publish.py, line 133, 
in publish
result = publication.callObject(request, obj)
  
File /usr/lib/zope-3.3.0/lib/python/zope/app/publication/zopepublication.py, 
line 161, in callObject
return mapply(ob, request.getPositionalArguments(), request)
  File /usr/lib/zope-3.3.0/lib/python/zope/publisher/publish.py, line 108, 
in mapply
return debug_call(obj, args)
   - __traceback_info__: bound method ThumbnailView.__call__ of 
zope.app.publisher.browser.viewmeta.ThumbnailView object at 0xb4f1c20c
  File /usr/lib/zope-3.3.0/lib/python/zope/publisher/publish.py, line 114, 
in debug_call
return obj(*args)
  File /var/lib/zope/office/lib/python/base/visual/browser.py, line 59, in 
__call__
tf.write(self.data)
  File /var/lib/zope/office/lib/python/base/thumbnail/browser/thumbnail.py, 
line 41, in data
return getAdapter(self.context, IVisual, name=thumbnail).data
  File /var/lib/zope/office/lib/python/base/thumbnail/thumbnail.py, line 21, 
in data
thumbnail = tg.get_thumbnail(self.context)
  File /var/lib/zope/office/lib/python/base/thumbnail/utility.py, line 80, 
in get_thumbnail
thumb.image = StringIO(
  File /var/lib/zope/office/lib/python/base/thumbnail/utility.py, line 67, 
in generate_thumbnail
thumbnail = stdout.read()
IOError: [Errno 4] Interrupted system call


i read somewhere that os.popen2 is not friendly towards twisted framework, and 
that twisted.internet.reactor.spawnProcess or 
twisted.internet.process.Process should be used.
i can't undersnad what format the parameter childfds should look like when 
calling those. could somebody show me the equivalent of (stdin, stdout) = 
os.popen2() ?

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