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Example of rendering a matplotlib image directly to Flask view

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flaskplotlib.py
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from flask import Flask, make_response
app = Flask(__name__)
 
@app.route("/simple.png")
def simple():
    import datetime
    import StringIO
    import random
 
    from matplotlib.backends.backend_agg import FigureCanvasAgg as FigureCanvas
    from matplotlib.figure import Figure
    from matplotlib.dates import DateFormatter
 
    fig=Figure()
    ax=fig.add_subplot(111)
    x=[]
    y=[]
    now=datetime.datetime.now()
    delta=datetime.timedelta(days=1)
    for i in range(10):
        x.append(now)
        now+=delta
        y.append(random.randint(0, 1000))
    ax.plot_date(x, y, '-')
    ax.xaxis.set_major_formatter(DateFormatter('%Y-%m-%d'))
    fig.autofmt_xdate()
    canvas=FigureCanvas(fig)
    png_output = StringIO.StringIO()
    canvas.print_png(png_output)
    response=make_response(png_output.getvalue())
    response.headers['Content-Type'] = 'image/png'
    return response
 
 
if __name__ == "__main__":
    app.run()
jyoo commented

Yo this is awesome. Thank you and works perfectly out of the box.

Wayn0 commented

Thanks, this has given me some ideas!

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