[Image-SIG] Addition to PIL FAQ

[Fredrik Lundh]

That specific case is discussed in the last section of that page.  The
page is roughly sorted after how common the different cases were when
the page was first written; given that different people get stuck at
different points in the process, I'm not sure it's possible to have
everyone's stumbling block at the top of the FAQ ;-)

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On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 1:55 AM, Aubrey Barnard <afbarnard at wisc.edu> wrote:
> Dear PIL developers of the image SIG,
>
> I have an addition that I would like to make to the PIL FAQ (located at
> http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/faq.htm). I would like to add the
> following information to the answer to "Why does PIL say 'The _imaging C
> module is not installed'?"
>
> I saw this problem because I was using PIL with a different version of
> Python than was used to compile PIL. So the tip to add is that PIL must be
> compiled and used with the same Python.
>
> While this requirement might seem obvious, it can be obscured on machines
> with multiple versions of Python when a user requests a particular Python
> that is not the first one found via the path. (E.g. PIL will be built with
> the default Python, but the user will try to use it with a different
> Python.)
>
> Thank you for considering adding this to the FAQ. I think it will save PIL
> users such as myself many headaches.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Aubrey Barnard
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