How do I create a wx.Image object from in-memory data?

I'm writing a GUI application in Python using wxPython and I want to display an image in a static control (wx.StaticBitmap).

I can use wx.ImageFromStream to load an image from a file, and this works OK:

static_bitmap = wx.StaticBitmap(parent, wx.ID_ANY)
f = open("test.jpg", "rb")
image = wx.ImageFromStream(f)
bitmap = wx.BitmapFromImage(image)
static_bitmap.SetBitmap(bitmap)

But, what I really want to be able to do is create the image from data in memory. So, if I write

f = open("test.jpg", "rb")
data = f.read()

how can I create a wx.Image object from data?

Thanks for your help!

From stackoverflow

• Since in Python you use Duck Typing you can write your own stream class and hand an instance of that class to ImageFromStream. I think you only need to implement the read method and make it return your data.

• You should be able to use StringIO to wrap the buffer in a memory file object.

  ...
  import StringIO
  
  buf = open("test.jpg", "rb").read()
  # buf = get_image_data()
  sbuf = StringIO.StringIO(buf)
  
  image = wx.ImageFromStream(sbuf)
  ...
  

  buf can be replaced with any data string.

  ChrisN : Perfect. Thank you!

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