[Image-SIG] PIL 1.0b1 and GifImagePlugin.py

[Daniel Walton]

Looks like it worked for me!  Thanks Steve!

Dan

At 02:46 PM 3/8/99 +0000, you wrote:
>Re: Daniel Walton's reported error with local/global palettes in GIF
>images, namely:
>
>	File "/usr/local/lib/python1.5/site-packages/PIL/GifImagePlugin.py",
>line
>	109, in seek
>	    self.palette = self.global_palette
>	AttributeError: global_palette
>
>I have also experienced this error for the first time today, and have a
>patch to offer.  It seems to work for his sample image and those with
>global palettes, but I didn't test exhaustively (with, for example,
>animated GIFs).  The innocuous patch is to insert the following at line
>78 of 'GifImagePlugin.py':
>
>	else:
>	    self.global_palette = None
>
>as a counterpart to the 'if' on line 73:
>
>	if flags & 128:
>
>
>Works for me.  Hope this helps Daniel and/or others somehow.
>
>BTW, a ready source of these local-palette images is the GIF encoder
>built into the MS Office 2000 preview.  These images also confuse the
>well-known 'xv' viewer, so PIL is in somewhat illustrious company on
>this issue.
>
>Regards,
>
>
>-Steve
>
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