[Zope] Name Clashing between Zope and PIL

[The Dragon De Monsyne]

On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Michel Pelletier wrote:

> > Hello,
> > 
> > 
> > There seems to be a name-clashing between zope and PIL 
> > library, namely the
> > module 'ImageFile'.
> > Did someone encoutner this problem, and how is the suggested way of
> > solving it?
> > 
> Yes, it was discussed on the list a few weeks ago, while
> we were in the midst of moving-office-hell.  I suggest
> before re-opening this wound we (those of us who are 
> interested) go back and read the relevant discussions
> so we don't reproduce non-productive discussion.
> 
> -Michel

	I have a patch for the PIL that solves this problem. It does _not_
interfere with the 'standard' use of the PIL at all, but it allows for it
to me imported as a package (named PIL) as well as by the 'standard'
method. The patch is very simple, basically just adding an empty
__init__.py to the PIL directory, and patching two __import__() calls in
Image.py so the plugins get imported with the right context.

Here's the diffs on  Image.py:

----Begin diff

*** Image.py.orig       Thu Feb 11 10:21:12 1999
--- Image.py    Sun Feb  7 10:39:02 1999
***************
*** 146,152 ****
      for m in ("BmpImagePlugin", "GifImagePlugin", "JpegImagePlugin",
                "PpmImagePlugin", "TiffImagePlugin"):
          try:
!             __import__(m)
          except ImportError:
              pass # ignore missing driver for now
  
--- 146,152 ----
      for m in ("BmpImagePlugin", "GifImagePlugin", "JpegImagePlugin",
                "PpmImagePlugin", "TiffImagePlugin"):
          try:
!             __import__(m, globals(), locals(), [])
          except ImportError:
              pass # ignore missing driver for now
  
***************
*** 170,176 ****
                try:
                    sys.path.insert(0, path)
                    try:
!                       __import__(f)
                    finally:
                        del sys.path[0]
                except ImportError:
--- 170,176 ----
                try:
                    sys.path.insert(0, path)
                    try:
!                       __import__(f,globals(), locals(), [])
                    finally:
                        del sys.path[0]
                except ImportError:


----End diff


	-The Dragon De Monsyne