By the way, I'm pretty sure that this only happens for some PNG images, and once you upload your application, PNG reading is done by GAE:s image library, not PIL, so the application you're building should be fine.
</F> On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Fredrik Lundh <fred...@pythonware.com> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 10:33 PM, Bharathwaaj Srinivasan > <bharathwaa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I'm trying to get the images-demo working for google appengine. >> >> http://code.google.com/p/google-app-engine-samples/source/browse/trunk/images-demo >> >> The full traceback can be found here: >> >> http://pastebin.com/cBn6cA0V > > Hmm. First time I've ever seen that error in any context. Looks like > GAE's import mechanisms cause some trouble for relative imports that > won't happen if you run things stand-alone. And it looks like PIL's > far from the only library suffering from this: > > http://www.google.com/search?q=%22SystemError:+Parent+module+*+not+loaded%22 > > even if most PIL reports I found seem to be for GAE. My guess is that > it's some misfeature in the changes to relative import that was > introduced in 2.6 (iirc), but since it doesn't happen when you run PIL > in a normal configuration, I'm not sure how to debug it. If someone > can come up with a simple test case that triggers this, let me know. > > I guess this also means that adding an ICCProfile module to the path > won't help you; if you cannot figure out something better, you might > have to comment out the problematic code (or you could try replacing > the relative import with a "from PIL import" and see if that helps). > > </F> > >> On 13 November 2010 02:04, Fredrik Lundh <fred...@pythonware.com> wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 7:30 PM, Bharathwaaj Srinivasan >>> <bharathwaa...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > I keep getting error in import ICCProfile in PNGImagePlugin.py _save. >>> > >>> > What am I missing? Which package contains ICCProfile? >>> >>> Not sure why that code was left in there, but iirc it's an extension hook. >>> >>> > I've been searching but couldn't get a clue on why it is failing. >>> >>> Me neither, given that the import is protected by a try/except. >>> >>> try: >>> import ICCProfile >>> except ImportError: >>> ... >>> >>> What exactly are you doing when you get this import error, and what >>> does the full traceback look like? >>> >>> </F> >> >> > _______________________________________________ Image-SIG maillist - Image-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/image-sig
