[Zope] name conflict - ImageFile

Itamar Shtull-Trauring itamars@ibm.net
Thu, 30 Mar 2000 18:42:19 +0200


Lauri Posti wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I ran into trouble when trying use PIL (python imaging lib) in zope
> product.
> The problem is that zope's App.ImageFile is used by PIL's internals
> instead of PILs ImageFile and of course this doesn't work.
> 
> Any ideas how to fix this problem?

Put an __init__.py in the PIL file that says:

import Image, ImageDraw 

and have it import whatever you need from pIL.

Then you can just do 
	import PIL
in Zope.


The Poll Product has some instructions on this.

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Itamar S.T.  itamars@ibm.net