Fixed #12369 -- Improved example to account for environments where cS…

…tringIO is not available. Thanks to rubic for the report and niall for the patch. git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@14076 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
django · Oct 9, 2010 · 0500105 · 0500105
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diff --git a/docs/howto/outputting-pdf.txt b/docs/howto/outputting-pdf.txt
@@ -101,7 +101,11 @@ cStringIO_ library as a temporary holding place for your PDF file. The cStringIO
 library provides a file-like object interface that is particularly efficient.
 Here's the above "Hello World" example rewritten to use ``cStringIO``::
 
-    from cStringIO import StringIO
+    # Fall back to StringIO in environments where cStringIO is not available
+    try:
+        from cStringIO import StringIO
+    except ImportError:
+        from StringIO import StringIO
     from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas
     from django.http import HttpResponse