[Image-SIG] Need help installing PIL 1.1.5 on OSX (LONG)

[Fredrik Lundh]

Bob Ippolito wrote:

> You need to convert images that aren't already RGB in order to save
> them as JPEG. This might be a bug in Engal, but the fix would look
> something like this:
> 
> if image.mode != "RGB":
>     image = image.convert("RGB")

I'd recommend

     if image.mode not in ("L", "RGB"):
         image = image.convert("RGB")

or even, to do the "right thing" for all possible modes:

     if image.mode not in ("L", "RGB"):
         image = image.convert(Image.getmodebase(image.mode))

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