[Pythonmac-SIG] django webapp using CoreGraphics complains about "wrong architecture"

[Geert Dekkers]

Would this then mean that PIL would also fail complaining about "wrong  
architecture" when running under 64-bit Apache?

Geert

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> From: VanL <van.lindberg at gmail.com>
> Date: 16 September 2009 7:54:39 PM
> To: pythonmac-sig at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] django webapp using CoreGraphics  
> complains about "wrong architecture"
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> David Warde-Farley wrote:
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>> My best guess (as I've never poked around in the guts of PIL) is  
>> that there is a pure Python version that is slow-as-molasses and  
>> then a sped up C version which is used if possible (_imaging.so).  
>> PIL invoked from Apache will thus probably use the slow-as-molasses  
>> version as the import of _imaging will silently fail somewhere in  
>> the Python code but be caught by an exception handler.
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> PIL is lazy. It will give you back an image object that will be  
> filled in when you look inside it. Thus, the pure Python create  
> image works, but the lazy hook bombs when you try to actually do  
> something with the image.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Van
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