working for SVG

biocham_kernel/images.py

@@ -12,9 +12,14 @@ def display_data_for_image(filename):
 
     image_type = imghdr.what(None, image)
     if image_type is None:
-        raise ValueError("Not a valid image: %s" % image)
+        if filename.endswith('.svg'):
+            image_type = 'svg+xml'
+            image_data = image.decode('utf-8')
+        else:
+            raise ValueError("Not a valid image: %s" % image)
+    else:
+        image_data = base64.b64encode(image).decode('ascii')
 
-    image_data = base64.b64encode(image).decode('ascii')
     content = {
         'data': {
             'image/' + image_type: image_data