Re: PIL questions: still supported? Problems on 2.7 for win? alternatives?

On 2012-10-02 09:26:56 +, WhisperingWally said: Gelonida N gmail.com> writes: I wondered whether some of you have a little more insight into what's going on with PIL. AFAIK the latest PIL stuff lives here: hg.effbot.org Certainly true, though somewhat meaningless in the current cont

Re: PIL questions: still supported? Problems on 2.7 for win? alternatives?

Gelonida N gmail.com> writes: > I wondered whether some of you have a little more insight into what's > going on with PIL. AFAIK the latest PIL stuff lives here: hg.effbot.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PIL questions: still supported? Problems on 2.7 for win? alternatives?

On Sep 27, 7:44 am, Gelonida N wrote: > This is what is confusing me. > if I start with a new python and I just install Pillow, then pillow is > imported via > import PIL > so it does not seem to have a separate name space > > If I had PIL and pillow installed, then I wouldn't even know how to > c

Re: PIL questions: still supported? Problems on 2.7 for win? alternatives?

On 09/25/2012 02:42 PM, alex23 wrote: On Sep 25, 6:25 pm, Gelonida N wrote: So it seems to be safe to use either Christoph' binary PIL distribution or to use Pillow. The fact, that pillow is accessable via PyPi / easy_install / PIP pushes me slightly towards pillow. I assume it's best to u

Re: PIL questions: still supported? Problems on 2.7 for win? alternatives?

On Sep 25, 6:25 pm, Gelonida N wrote: > So it seems to be safe to use either Christoph' binary PIL distribution > or to use Pillow. > > The fact, that pillow is accessable via PyPi / easy_install / PIP pushes > me slightly towards pillow. > I assume it's best to uninstall PIL before installing p

Re: PIL questions: still supported? Problems on 2.7 for win? alternatives?

On 09/25/2012 01:38 AM, alex23 wrote: On Sep 25, 6:04 am, Gelonida N wrote: This all does not sound very comforting. Why is there no fix on the official site? Has a bug been logged about the issue? The Plone community keeps a fairly up-to-date fork called Pillow, we've had a lot of success u

Re: PIL questions: still supported? Problems on 2.7 for win? alternatives?

On Sep 25, 11:46 am, Alex Clark wrote: > Actually, I started it for the Plone community, but have recently > broadened the scope (since most of the contributions came from outside > Plone). You're a saint, thanks for taking this on. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PIL questions: still supported? Problems on 2.7 for win? alternatives?

On Sep 25, 6:04 am, Gelonida N wrote: > So I'll probably try to install the custom binary, but would like to > know whether anybody has experience with this > build.http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pil Sorry, I missed this the first time. I'm using this version successfully under Window

Re: PIL questions: still supported? Problems on 2.7 for win? alternatives?

On 2012-09-24 23:38:05 +, alex23 said: On Sep 25, 6:04 am, Gelonida N wrote: This all does not sound very comforting. Why is there no fix on the official site? Has a bug been logged about the issue? The Plone community keeps a fairly up-to-date fork called Pillow, we've had a lot of suc

Re: PIL questions: still supported? Problems on 2.7 for win? alternatives?

On Monday, September 24, 2012 4:38:05 PM UTC-7, alex23 wrote: > On Sep 25, 6:04 am, Gelonida N wrote: > > > This all does not sound very comforting. Why is there no fix on the > > > official site? > > > > Has a bug been logged about the issue? > See issue #1 at

Re: PIL questions: still supported? Problems on 2.7 for win? alternatives?

On Sep 25, 6:04 am, Gelonida N wrote: > This all does not sound very comforting. Why is there no fix on the > official site? Has a bug been logged about the issue? The Plone community keeps a fairly up-to-date fork called Pillow, we've had a lot of success using that locally: http://pypi.python

PIL questions: still supported? Problems on 2.7 for win? alternatives?

Hi, I'm trying to migrate a project with legacy code from 2.6 (with PIL 1.1.6) to 2.7 with (PIL 1.1.7) The SW should run on Windows. PIL fails with an error concering '_imagingft' This seems to be a known issue. http://code.google.com/p/pythonxy/issues/detail?id=300 and the bug was never clo