[Image-SIG] Re: Problems with PIL1.1.4 using Py2exe

[Fredrik Lundh]

Gabriele Tazzari wrote:

> Can you please tell me why the script runs and the exe doesn't ?
> The error I get with the exe is
>
>     Traceback (most recent call last):
>       File "<string>", line 2, in ?
>      File "Image.pyo", line 1571, in open
>    IOError: cannot identify image file

PIL scans the Python path for image plugins (*ImagePlugin files).

to make sure that PY2EXE finds the image plugins you need, you must
explicitly import them from your main program.  for examples, see:

    http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2003-December/199226.html
    http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2003-December/199237.html

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