Darran Edmundson <dee124@rsphy1.anu.edu.au> said:

I just read a slew of month-old posts on EGroups about my exact question ... but to no avail. I installed PIL in the $(ZopeDir)/lib/python/Products/Photo directory.

On WinNT I have PIL installed in lib/python/PIL I have the _imaging.dll and other PIL .dll files copied into this directory. Also, from the python Win32 binary distribution, I have copied the following .dll files into my PIL directory. tcl80.lib tcl80.dll tchsh80.exe tclpip80.dll tk80.lib wish80.exe tk80.dll Be sure that the PIL _tkinter.dll file is also included in your PIL directory. Admittedly, Photo doesn't use tcl/tk for anything, but I don't want the trouble of compiling PIL from source on WinNT. Call me lazy. If you want, I can zip up my PIL directory and send it to you privately. I had considered packaging PIL with Photo, but PIL has a couple of shortcomings. Presently, I am strongly leaning towards integrating Photo with Imagemagick. So far, no one has objected.

If I leave PIL's default __init__.py (empty) then the Photo Product is not "broken" but creating a Photo instance dies with "Attribute error - Image" in photo.py.

This is because PIL does not come as a python package by default. When importing PIL into Zope, python raises a name error because the PIL Image object conflicts with the Zope Image object.

If I instead follow the instructions and copy the __init__.py distributed with the Photo Product in the install_PIL subdirectory then the product is broken with the previously reported "_imaging" dll error. PIL works fine with my non-Zope python so its got to be a configuration error. Help from one of the many who have faced this problem (and conquered it) is much appreciated.

Cheers, Darran.

Cheers, Drew