[Image-SIG] PIL error with encoder

[Fredrik Lundh]

2010/8/2 Dhruv Majumdar <dhruv at nettrackers.net>:

> Im new to Python and have been struggling with this error during tests:
>
> IOError: encoder zip not available
>
> I have python 2.7 with zlib, jpeg and freetype installed on the server. When
> building PIL it shows support for all three above. However i notice at
> ImageFile._save(im, _idat(fp, chunk), [("zip", (0,0)+im.size, 0, rawmode)])
>
> I get the abovementioned error.

Make sure your Python script is actually picking up the version you
built.  To see which version it's using, add this to your script:

     import _imaging; print _imaging.__file__

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