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Google App Engine needs PIL
May 4, 2008 |
The little project I have been working on has hit minor roadblock that requires I exclude some planned features for now. The issue is that there are no image manipulation libraries available that runs on Google App Engine (GAE) yet. Image libraries always have compiled C extension since manipulating images is something that pure Python code just can’t do fast enough to be useful. For security reasons GAE won’t allow most libraries with compiled C to run. The big one for python called Python Imaging Library (PIL) from PythonWare.
There is an open feature request for PIL support to be added to GAE and if you are at all interested working with images on GAE please go and log in to the bug tracker and star the that issue.
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