[reportlab-users] problem with PIL 1.1.7 and ReportLab 2.2

[Robin Becker]

On 11/12/2009 18:22, Bill Janssen wrote:
.........

> Unfortunately, PIL 1.1.7 final is out, and widely distributed.  I'm sure

> 1.1.8 will eventually have a fix for this, but ReportLab will still

> continue to break when combined with the buggy 1.1.7.  Just calling

> load() in the ReportLab code before calling split() should work fine for

> all versions of PIL.

>

> Bill

.........

Bill,

can you try the effect of this patch


Index: /code/reportlab/lib/utils.py
===================================================================
--- /code/reportlab/lib/utils.py        (revision 3616)
+++ /code/reportlab/lib/utils.py        (working copy)
@@ -341,7 +341,6 @@
          except ImportError:
              Image = None
      haveImages = Image is not None
-    if haveImages: del Image

  try:
      from cStringIO import StringIO as __StringIO
@@ -519,8 +518,7 @@

  def _isPILImage(im):
      try:
-        from PIL.Image import Image
-        return isinstance(im,Image)
+        return isinstance(im,Image.Image)
      except ImportError:
          return 0

@@ -598,8 +596,7 @@
              from javax.imageio import ImageIO
              return ImageIO.read(fp)
          else:
-            import PIL.Image
-            return PIL.Image.open(fp)
+            return Image.open(fp)

      def _jpeg_fh(self):
          fp = self.fp
@@ -644,6 +641,7 @@
                  im = self._image
                  mode = self.mode = im.mode
                  if mode=='RGBA':
+                    if Image.VERSION.startswith('1.1.7'): im.load()
                      self._dataA = ImageReader(im.split()[3])
                      im = im.convert('RGB')
                      self.mode = 'RGB'



ie we check for the version of the Image module; the other changes are to make 
the import of PIL just once.
-- 
Robin Becker