[Image-SIG] Re: Your wish is my command (long)
Andrew Kuchling
akuchlin@cnri.reston.va.us
Fri, 10 Jul 1998 17:06:56 -0400 (EDT)
Fredrik Lundh writes:
Eric S. Raymond writes:
>That explains it. ISO 12087 was probably composed in French. I bet you
>that `band' is a literal translation of a French word by someone who didn't
>know what a connotative mess he was making. Please don't propagate this
>error.
If we're taking a vote, I quite agree; the usage of 'band'
seemed strange to me when I read the documentation, and I kept having
to substitute 'channel' for it.
>-def _showxv(self, title = None):
>+def _showxv(self, background=0, title=None):
Better to exchange the two arguments in this patch; that won't
break any code which does X._showxv("foo.gif")
>Which brings up a question. Why aren't docs included with the PIL
>distribution? The only docs I've found are the (incomplete) PIL
>web pages.
Fredrik, I'd be willing to help convert the docs to LaTeX if
that would be helpful.
>OK, what I'll do is put together pildriver for the next release.
Bet that'll be misread as 'piledriver' a lot. :)
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