use of import of PIL incorrectly documented, or is it just me ?

[Bernhard Herzog]

Robin Becker <robin at jessikat.fsnet.co.uk> writes:

> I'm using PIL as a package to avoid clashes with other Image(s) and find
> that it doesn't save PNG format files unless I do a 
> 
> from PIL import PngImagePlugin
> 
> is the behaviour different when the PIL files aren't on the path?

That's a bug in PIL up to 1.1.1. If PIL is installed purely as a
package, that is, when the PIL directory is not in sys.path, then only a
few standard plugins are recognized because they're explicitly imported
in Image.py. PIL 1.1.2 finally fixes this (well, at least 1.1.2c1 does
for me).

  Bernhard

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