Summary

Update PIL import

Review Request #7876 — Created Jan. 15, 2016 and submitted Jan. 25, 2016, 4:31 p.m.

Information

Owner

brennie

Repository

Djblets

Branch

release-0.8.x

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djblets

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Description

Previously, if PIL's Image library could not be imported, the Image

module would be imported. However, this is not a good way to import PIL

becuase it masks the errors from the first import, which can occur if

some dependencies (such as libtiff or libjpeg) are missing.

Testing Done


Ran unit tests.

Tool: PEP8 Style Checker
Processed Files:
    djblets/util/templatetags/djblets_images.py



Tool: Pyflakes
Processed Files:
    djblets/util/templatetags/djblets_images.py

Ship it!

According to this link this suggests that it was around 2011 / PIL 1.2 that the decision was made to change importing behaviour so that you can't import Image from the global namespace. However, the PIL website says that the current release is 1.1.7...
So it's not clear to me what configurations we might be breaking here. Is it possible that there are instances of Review Board (or other Djblets apps) out there running versions of PIL that rely on import Image, and if so, do we care about them?

Status:: Completed
Change Summary:: Pushed to release-0.9.x (69c43fb)