BJörn Lindqvist schrieb: > Cool PEP! I really love the API for the Image class. A standard Image > class would be a useful addition to the standard library. > > But I cannot see how it would solve the problem with to many image > classes. The reason why PIL, PyGame and wxPython has different image > classes is because each of them use different C functions for > manipulating said image classes. These differences bubble up through > the bindings and results in PIL exposing an Image, PyGame a Surface > and wxPython a wxImage. The result is that if you want to use a PIL > Image in say PyGame, you still need to convert it. If PIL stores RGB > images with 32 bpp and PyGame uses 24, then you'll have to convert it > to get it into the proper format. > > The only way to get compatibility between the libraries is to create > an image library in C _and_ get those libraries to start using it. >
They'll all quack the same way. (This is paraphrased in the PEP's abstract, as far as I read it.) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
