[Pythonmac-SIG] py2app and PIL question

[Chris Jerdonek]

On Nov 16, 2005, at 2:14 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:

>>>> class FreeTypeFont:
>>>>      "FreeType font wrapper (requires _imagingft service)"
>>>>
>>>>      def __init__(self, file, size, index=0, encoding=""):
>>>>          # FIXME: use service provider instead
>>>>          import _imagingft
>>>> (121)   self.font = _imagingft.getfont(file, size, index, encoding)
>>>
>>> Looks like it's trying to find a font or something that isn't where 
>>> PIL expects it to be... you sure you added all the data files that 
>>> you're using?
>>
>>
>> Is there a way for me to find out what data files I'm using?  
>> Apparently the font normally gets loaded through PIL's _imagingft 
>> module, but the _imagingft module seems weird.  Take a look at it 
>> below (it even mentions py2app).  Any idea what this means -- how to 
>> work around it?
>
> no, there isn't really a way to find out what data files you're using 
> other than to look hard at the source code.. unless you ktrace the 
> process and look at all the NAMI or something.
>
> The code you're looking at isn't _imagingft, it's a stub to load it.  
> _imagingft is an extension, written in C.

Is there a way I could modify the code to write these font objects to a 
file?  (The same font is needed every time the program is run.)  Then, 
before running py2app, I could change the code to load these font 
objects directly -- instead of going through the usual _imagingft 
binary extension module.

Also, is my understanding correct that py2app can't detect these 
dependencies because they appear in a binary extension as opposed to a 
python module?

Chris