[Image-SIG] Problems with XpmImagePlugin.py

[Douglas Bagnall]

Richard Oudkerk wrote:
 >
> (6) ImageColor.colormap misspells 'lightgray' as 'lightgrey'.  (I
> assume this is a misspelling since it contains 'gray', 'dimgray',
> 'slategray',... but not 'grey', 'dimgrey', 'slategrey',...)
> 

AFAIK, this spelling mixture is very old and has snuck into many realms. 
  Netscape borrowed XPM colours for html extensions, whence, for a 
while, they entered the CSS standard.  The w3c now accepts either 
spelling for any shade of grey, but I think X may be more conservative.

regards,

Douglas Bagnall