[Image-SIG] PIL video capture extension type problem

[Rich Drewes]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:

>"im.im" is the ImagingObject, "im.im.id" is a pointer to the
>Imaging structure, cast to a long integer.
>
>("im.im" might be None, if the raster image hasn't been loaded.
>if you cannot be sure that the image was created by a call to
>Image.new, call "im.load()" before accessing the "im.im" attribute)
>
>and yes, if you're going to fill the entire image anyway, you can
>pass in None as the third argument (fill colour):
>
>    im = Image.new("RGB", (160,120), None)
>
You have me on the right track now.  Thanks!  However . . .

>also see the snap function in Sane/sane.py and Sane/_sanemodule.c
>
It seems like it would be more natural for the python code to pass the 
plain "im" (not im.im or im.im.id) and then have the C code access the 
actual Imaging portion of the structure itself.  The _sanemodule.c 
doesn't do this though--it passes in the im.im.id from Python, and the C 
code has to accept that pointer as an int and typecast it to a pointer . 
. . all kind of ugly.  Why do it this way instead of passing in the "im" 
and letting the C code find the Imaging portion of the structure?

Thanks again!
Rich