Yep, it's a known bug in 1.1.7. Trivial patch here:
http://hg.effbot.org/pil-2009-raclette/changeset/355
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2010/12/26 Kevin Paulus <kevin.pau...@skynet.be>:
>
>
> Hello All and Merry Christmas,
>
> I've found a bug and verified it with several of my
> Slackware fanatics: it seems that Pil 1.1.7 (python 2.6.4 )
>
> when you do a Image.open('image').show()
>
> ImageShow seems to call every available viewer from _viewers on your system
> which on mine and a lot of other systems means it builds a separate tempfile
> and calls xv and display with them.
>
> It's been reported the same stuff happens on freebsd where imagemagick's
> display and xv is available, which i guess are all the available _viewers
> (did some pdb on it, but my knowledge of pdb is rudimentary at best)
>
> I'm not sure if this is a bug but the docs mentions it should start the
> default viewer (usually xv) and not viewer*s*
>
> it's annoying to say the least.
>
>
> Greetings,
>
>
> goarilla
>
>
> PS: Happy New year's and i hope i didn't offend anyone or didn't follow the
> net etiquette, since the only mailing list I've ever used is the one which
> is used at work.
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