Encode Base64 Django ImageField Stream

Question

I receive an Image through my form, which I not want to save as usual in a FileField but in a CharField as Base64. This is my current setup:

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Answer 1

Yes it's possible to do it easily with PIL !

How to :

Save image in the buffer and encode it in base64.

import base64
import cStringIO

img_buffer = cStringIO.StringIO()
image.save(img_buffer, format="imageFormatYouWant")
img_str = base64.b64encode(img_buffer.getvalue())

Or :

with open("yourImage.ext", "rb") as image_file:
    encoded_string = base64.b64encode(image_file.read())