[Image-SIG] ANN: PIL 1.2 pre-alpha (January 8, 2011)

[Nicolas Pinault]

Hello,

That's good news.

In CHANGES.txt file, one can read :
+ Added support for reading 16-bit RGB TIFF files.

Does PIL 1.2 internally manages 16bit per pixel or does it still uses 
8bit per pixel ?

Best regards
Nicolas


Le 08/01/2011 02:41, Fredrik Lundh a écrit :
> A pre-alpha snapshot of the upcoming PIL 1.2 release is now available from:
>
>    http://hg.effbot.org/pil-2009-raclette/downloads/PIL-1.2a0-20110108.tar.gz
>
> or via Mercurial, from https://bitbucket.org/effbot/pil-2009-raclette
>
> I've decided to abandon the planned 1.1.8 release, including the rough
> and still unreleased 3.X port of 1.1.7+. Instead, the new plan is to
> provide a single code base for both Python 2.X and 3.X, and most of
> the changes in 1.2 will affect internal architecture and packaging
> only (I do have some very interesting contributions that are pending
> integration, though).  Support for very old versions have been
> dropped, and so has the support for importing from the standard
> namespace; PIL now lives in the PIL namespace only.  Some
> long-deprecated methods have also been removed, but everything else
> should work as usual.
>
> The source kit has been built and tested with Python 2.3, 2.4, 2.5,
> 2.6, and 2.7.  It also builds under Python 3.1 and 3.2 beta, even if
> the functionality is currently *very* limited under Python 3.X.
>
> </F>
>
> $ tar xvfz PIL-1.2a0-20110108.tar.gz
> ...
> $ cd PIL-1.2a0/
> $ python3 setup.py install --prefix .
> ...
> $ cd lib/python3.1/site-packages/
> $ python3
> Python 3.1.2 (r312:79147, Apr 15 2010, 15:35:48)
> [GCC 4.4.3] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> from PIL import Image
>>>> im = Image.open("../../../Images/lena.png")
>>>> im
> <PIL.PngImagePlugin.PngImageFile image mode=RGB size=128x128 at 0xE6B1D0>
>>>> im.load() # only works under 2.X in this release
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