PIL for Python 2.4?

[Fredrik Lundh]

David Fraser wrote:

> I tried building PIL with mingw recently and had some failures I can't remember ...

if you don't report your build problems, they will never get fixed (the
image-sig is the right forum for this, and the best place to get answers
to PIL-related questions).

> It *did* make me think "I wish there was some Pure Python image-handling code". It seems like the 
> C linkage is mainly required for image formatting handling - I couldn't find any JPEG 
> reading/writing code in Pure Python ... would be nice :-)

and incredibly slow.  PIL uses C for a reason.

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