[Python-Dev] Fixes for imageop module

[Guido van Rossum]

> > Hm.  Anybody who uses the imageop module currently on Linux will find
> > their programs broken.  The strings manipulated by imageop all end up
> > either being written to a file or handed to some drawing code, and
> > changing the byte order would definitely break things!
> 
> That's why I asked.
> 
> > So I don't think this is an acceptable change.  I take it that for
> > IRIX, the byte order implied by the old code is simply wrong?  Maybe
> > the module can be given a global (shrudder?) byte order setting that
> > you can change but that defaults to the old setting?
> 
> The problem is, the documentation says: "This is the same format as used 
> by gl.lrectwrite() and the imgfile module."  This implies the byte order 
> that you get on the SGI which is opposite of what you get on Intel. The 
> code produced the correct results on the SGI, but not on Intel.

Your fix would be okay if until now it was *only* used on IRIX with
gl.lrectwrite() and/or the imgfile module.  But how can we prove that?

> (By the way, I'm away from computers for a week starting tomorrow 
> extremely early.)

It's okay to way a week before making a decision.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)