[Pythonmac-SIG] PIL and Snow Leopard

[Ned Deily]

In article <C6D2F15E-F3E9-4948-89D3-CC36B7525A4E at eku.edu>,
 Jerry LeVan <jerry.levan at eku.edu> wrote:
> Snow Leopard seems to have severely broken my WxPython Postgresql  
> database
> browser tool... two or three queries and the app locks up or dies.
> 
> I have been trying to 'spiff up' its parent, a Tkinter based browser,  
> which
> still works except that I appear to have lost PIL, Image and Image-Tk  
> some
> where along the way so I cannot view images stored in the database any  
> more.
> 
> Is building PIL on Snow Leopard 'easy' I have the apple python (32/64)  
> installed
> and the python.org 2.6.2 (32 bit) version installed.
> 
> Anyone have any experiences in building PIL in the above environment?
> 
> Anyone else having a problem with WxPython on Snow Leopard?
> 
> Thanks for any insights...

This may not be related to what you are seeing with "lock ups" but a 
number of people have seen problems with IDLE, which also uses Tkinter, 
that comes with Apple's python 2.6 on Snow Leopard.  In 10.6, the Apple 
python Tkinter is linked with Tk 8.5.7, believed to be the new Cocoa Tk. 
At the moment, this problem has not been resolved; see 
http://bugs.python.org/issue6864 .  The pythons installed by the 
python.org OS X installers, including the newly released 2.6.3, don't 
exhibit this problem because are linked with Tk 8.4, which is still 
available and updated by Apple in 10.6.  Note that the python.org 
pythons are still 32-bit-only Intel & ppc.

For what it's worth, the MacPorts py26-pil port builds fine on 10.6 with 
the MacPorts python26.

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org