[Pythonmac-SIG] I can't grok PIL anymore...

[Jerry LeVan]

OK, I got it figured out...

I went to Pythonmac.org  and downloaded the PIL thingee
for Macosx10.3

Things seem to be working now...

Jerry

On Oct 15, 2005, at 8:11 PM, Jerry LeVan wrote:

> Here is an even simpler demo of my problem...
> mandrill.jpg is in the directory where
> python is invoked.
>
> Jerry
>
> [macjerry:~/python]$ pythonw
> Python 2.4.1 (#2, Mar 31 2005, 00:05:10)
> [GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1666)] on darwin
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import Image
> >>> im=Image.open("mandrill.jpg")
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File "/Users/jerry/Library/Python/2.4/site-packages/PIL/ 
> Image.py", line 1745, in open
>     raise IOError("cannot identify image file")
> IOError: cannot identify image file
> >>>
>
> On Oct 15, 2005, at 7:23 PM, Jerry LeVan wrote:
>
>
>> About a year+ ago I quit programming, currently my interest
>> has been stimulated again and I am trying to get back up
>> to speed.
>>
>> I started out futzing around with pyscopg 2.0.4. and tried
>> to get it to build...
>>
>> I quickly realized that I was in bad shape ( memory wise...).
>>
>> I decided to upgrade to 2.4.1 and got the upgrade and the Tiger  
>> Python
>> Fix and started again...
>>
>> I finally got the python interfaces for Postgresql and Sqlite build
>> and convinced myself that things were getting better.
>>
>> I used the package manager to download PIL and things fell apart  
>> again
>> I don't seem to be able to display any sort of image.
>>
>> Here is a little program that I sorta recollect that worked.
>>
>> from Tkinter import *
>> import Image,ImageTk
>> import sys
>>
>> def main():
>>     filename = sys.argv[1]
>>     root = Tk()
>>     img = ImageTk.PhotoImage(file=filename)
>>     label = Label(root, image=img)
>>     label.pack()
>>     root.mainloop()
>>
>> main()
>>
>> Running the above with any kind of graphics file
>> gives a dump like:
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "imageview.py", line 13, in ?
>>     main()
>>   File "imageview.py", line 8, in main
>>     img = ImageTk.PhotoImage(file=filename)
>>   File "/Users/jerry/Library/Python/2.4/site-packages/PIL/ 
>> ImageTk.py", line 85, in __init__
>>     image = Image.open(kw["file"])
>>   File "/Users/jerry/Library/Python/2.4/site-packages/PIL/ 
>> Image.py", line 1745, in open
>>     raise IOError("cannot identify image file")
>> IOError: cannot identify image file
>> Exception exceptions.AttributeError: "PhotoImage instance has no  
>> attribute '_PhotoImage__photo'" in <bound method  
>> PhotoImage.__del__ of <ImageTk.PhotoImage instance at 0x23edf0>>  
>> ignored
>>
>> If I drop the ImageTk prefix to the PhotoImage line I can view Gifs.
>>
>> Several other programs that I am fairly sure worked also fail with  
>> the
>>  "cannot identify image file" error.
>>
>> Tkinter seems to be more or less working, I have a visual  
>> Postgresql browser that is
>> built out of a number of tk widgets.
>>
>> Tk itself seems to be working fine. I have written a photo browser  
>> that can view a large
>> number of image formats and it appears to be working fine.
>>
>> I installed PIL using the Package Manager and it installed into
>> ~/Library/Python/2.4/site-packages.
>>
>> Can anyone offer any clues as to what my problem is?
>>
>> Jerry
>>
>>
>>
>>
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