[Zope] Re: Strage behavior in Scripts

[Tres Seaver]

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Luiz Fernando B. Ribeiro wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have lost already 2 days in it and can't figure whats wrong.
> I'm using PIL to generate barcodes and writen an external method to
> handle this. The script runs fine in the console but inside Zope it
> raises exceptions in PIL files. I decided to write an external script
> and call it with sys.system from the external method but again it raises
> exceptions similar to the other but in other files. What can it bee?
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/engenho/bin/codigo_barra.py", line 89, in ?
>     barra.save(arquivo)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/PIL/Image.py", line 1127, in save
>     preinit()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/PIL/Image.py", line 243, in
> preinit
>     __import__("%sImagePlugin" % m, globals(), locals(), [])
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/PIL/GifImagePlugin.py", line
> 53, in ?
>     class GifImageFile(ImageFile.ImageFile):
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'ImageFile'
> 
> I'm using zope 2.7 from Debian sarge.

This is an ancient name-collision problem between PIL and Zope.  E.g.,
see http://mail.python.org/pipermail/image-sig/1999-August/000809.html
or http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/zope-list/2290857.

Tres.
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