Package: python-pygame
Version: 1.7.1release-4.1
Severity: normal
The attached code does not work with Python 2.5. It does work with
previous Python versions.
$ python pyg2.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "pyg2.py", line 7, in <module>
i = pygame.image.frombuffer (s.get_data (), (256, 192), 'RGBA')
TypeError: char buffer type not available
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (530, 'testing'), (520, 'unstable'), (510, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages python-pygame depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libjpeg62 6b-14 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libpng12-0 1.2.27-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libsdl-image1.2 1.2.6-3 image loading library for Simple D
ii libsdl-mixer1.2 1.2.8-3 mixer library for Simple DirectMed
ii libsdl-ttf2.0-0 2.0.9-1 ttf library for Simple DirectMedia
ii libsdl1.2debian 1.2.13-2 Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii libsmpeg0 0.4.5+cvs20030824-2 SDL MPEG Player Library - shared l
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
ii python 2.5.2-1 An interactive high-level object-o
ii python-central 0.6.6 register and build utility for Pyt
ii python-numeric 24.2-8.2 Numerical (matrix-oriented) Mathem
python-pygame recommends no packages.
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#!/usr/bin/python
import cairo
import pygame
s = cairo.ImageSurface (cairo.FORMAT_ARGB32, 256, 192)
i = pygame.image.frombuffer (s.get_data (), (256, 192), 'RGBA')
