Py2exe executable not loading images

[Thomas Heller]

anandpillai6 at yahoo.com (Anand) writes:

>       I have a simple viewer class in python using wxPython and PIL.
> The code uses PIL Image class to open an image and wxPython classes
> namely wxFrame, wxBitmap, wxImage to paint it on to a wxPanel.
[...]
>  
>      The code works fine for all images when run as a python script.
> When I create a win32 executable using py2exe and setup.py, the
> Image class fails with a message <reproduced here>

> 
> <Quote>
> File "<string>", line 453, in OpenImage
> File "PIL\Image.pyc", line 960, in open
> IOError: cannot identify image file
> </Quote>
> 
A simple Web search finds several pages offering solutions to this
problem. The best one I could find is from douglas zongker:
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/dougz/slithy/py2exe/

He writes:

   Statically load PIL image formats. Slithy uses the Python Imaging
   Library to read image files. Normally PIL dynamically loads plugins
   for the different file formats as it needs them; this scheme won't
   work with py2exe.  At the top of your main script, add a blob of
   code that looks like this:


    import Image

    import JpegImagePlugin    # import drivers for every image format you use
    import TgaImagePlugin
    import PngImagePlugin
    import GifImagePlugin

    Image._initialized = 1

HTH,

Thomas