Question

After a day’s reading, I’m no closer to finding a good way to render a bar code through Google app engine on python. The closest I’ve found is PyPNG as a pure python image library but it looks as though that would require quite a bit of work to make it usable. Does anyone have any good suggestions on how to do it before i walk down the tumultuous path of rolling my own?

Thanks,
Richard

Answer 1

You might want to look at a webservice to generate the barcode. I found the site below on google but there are many results if you search for: barcode webservice. Many of them are code for you to download and use but some appear to be live webservices.

http://www.barcodesoft.com/barcode-generator-webservice.aspx

Edit: Now that I think about it another option may be to generate the barcode in js/html depending on your need. This SO question/answers might be helpful:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/835082/what-is-the-best-javascript-barcode-generator