PIL photocd loading

[Fredrik Lundh]

Kevin Cazabon <kcazabon at home.com> wrote:
> <piet at cs.uu.nl> wrote in message news:ud7pumqnr.fsf at cs.uu.nl...
> > Has anybody succeeded in loading photocd files with PIL?
> > When I trie this, Python crashes with a memory access violation.
> > This is on Windows NT with PIL 1.0 (Nov 99).

> PIL can read PCD files that are in RGB format only... unfortunately
> 'standard' PCD images are saved in YCC format... so, I have never been
able
> to read a 'standard' PCD image.

umm.  not entirely correct.  PIL is supposed to convert
PhotoYCC images to RGB on the way in.

in other words, Piet's problem sure looks like a bug to me.
I'll look into it.

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