[SciPy-user] PIL and scipy conflicting

[José A Martín H]

Yes thats true , this error is ...
a long time ago in a scipy faraway...
but today this error still happend...

I as you import first scipy , and then Image...



----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Peirce" <Jonathan.Peirce at nottingham.ac.uk>
To: <scipy-user at scipy.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 6:55 PM
Subject: [SciPy-user] PIL and scipy conflicting


> Hi all
>
> I have scipy (0.2.0_alpha_212.4128) and PIL (1.1.4) installed on a winXP
> machine and I'm getting a strange conflict. If scipy is imported second
> (using a clean namespace) then Image can no longer 'open':
>
> #this works fine
> import scipy
> import Image
> im = Image.open('somefile.jpg')
>
> #this returns error
> import Image
> import scipy
> im = Image.open('somefile.jpg')
>
> >   File "C:\Python23\lib\site-packages\PIL\Image.py", line 1571, in open
> >     raise IOError("cannot identify image file")
> > IOError: cannot identify image file
>
>
> Does anyone know why? I don't want just to go with the former - its
> presumably doing some other damage to scipy that i haven't come across
yet!
>
> --
> Jon Peirce
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