[Mapit] PIL will not make map, BUG BUG!! Please make correction.

[Cave Crickett]

I understand this isn't an active project.  A new release would be
nice, but at the least, a note on the installation page would have
saved me hours!

Thanks for a cool product.

G
PS. Are you looking for someone to take over this project?

My system:
=== OS/Kernel Version ===> uname -a
FreeBSD seisan.inel.gov 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0: Sun May  8
10:21:06 UTC 2005

=== python-2.4.1_3 ===> /var/db/pkg/python-2.4.1_3/+COMMENT
An interpreted object-oriented programming language

=== mod_python-2.7.11 ===> /var/db/pkg/mod_python-2.7.11/+COMMENT
Apache module for integrating Python

=== mod_fastcgi-2.4.2 ===> /var/db/pkg/mod_fastcgi-2.4.2/+COMMENT
A fast-cgi module for Apache

PIL 1.1.5

On 10/27/05, Bernhard Herzog <bh at intevation.de> wrote:
> Cave Crickett <crickett at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > line 78 reads:
> > image = PIL.Image.new("RGB", (result_width, result_height), 0xFFFFFFFF)
> >
> > should read:
> > image = PIL.Image.new("RGB", (result_width, result_height), 0xFFFFFF)
> > There are too many F's.  This causes the PIL not to gen the map!
>
> Thanks for pointing this out!
>
> Which Python version do you use?  What's the exact error message you
> get?  I suspect it's Python 2.4.  In 2.4 the interpretation of
> hexadecimal literals changed.  Formerly, on a 32 bit system, 0xFFFFFFFF
> was -1, now it's 4294967295L.  With Python 2.4 I get the error
>
>     return Image()._new(core.fill(mode, size, color))
> SystemError: new style getargs format but argument is not a tuple
>
> With older Python's the code that's in MapIt works just fine.  Of
> course, since it doesn't work anymore with 2.4, we'll have to fix it.
> Fixing it is easy enough.  The change you propose also works with older
> Python+PIL versions including Python 1.5.2 and PIL 1.1.3.
>
> I don't know when I'll have time to actually make a release, though.
> Part of the difficulty there is that we don't really use mapit anymore
> and haven't worked on it since April 2002.
>
>
>    Bernhard
>
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