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Re: [pygame] Pygame 1.8 - PNG is an unsupported image format



I'm having the same problem.  Anything I do with a .png file throws an error.  When trying to load a .png picture I get a pygame error saying .png is an unsupported format:

>>> a = pygame.image.load(' mine.png')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#7>", line 1, in ?
    a = pygame.image.load('mine.png')
error: Unsupported image format

When I try to save a file to a .png, I get the following crash error.
>>> a = pygame.image.load('left.gif')
>>> pygame.image.save(a, 'left.png')

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/7950/pygamercpngya1.jpg

Followed by python crashing entirely  This occurs when I attempt to save to both a png or jpg (though I don't recall if jpg is to be supported for saving in 1.8).

Specs:
Windows 2000
Python 2.4
Pygame 1.8rc(1 and 2)

David ----

On 12/24/06, René Dudfield <renesd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks for all the testing Kamilche.

I've got it to have that problem on one of my machines now, so I can test it.

Still not sure what's wrong... but at least I can test it now.

Cheers,


On 12/24/06, Kamilche <kamilche@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> René Dudfield wrote:
> > Hello again,
> >
> > I double checked, and png is compiled in statically and works ok.
> > I've asked some other people to try it out on their systems, and it
> > works ok for them too.
> >
> > Could you please try removing pygame from the site-packages directory,
> > and installing it again?  Sounds like something fishy is happening.
> >
> > Make sure you don't have anything python/pygame thing open when you
> > install.
> >
>
> I'm running on a Windows 2000 system with 1 gig memory. I have python
> 2.4 and Pygame 1.7 installed.
>
> Per your instructions, I ensured no python app was running. I removed
> pygame from c:\python24\lib\site-packages. I installed pygame 1.8 RC2,
> ran my test, got the same error. So  I removed the folder again, and
> installed RC1 (which was 800K larger!) and ran the tests again. They
> still didn't work.
>
> I tried the same technique using RC1 only, on a Windows XP machine, with
> the same results. Then I restarted the XP machine, had the same results.
>
> I saw Lenard Lindstrom had the same problem. What sort of machine are
> you running on, Lenard?
>
> Maybe it's a problem in the Python 2.4 version only. Did the people that
> ran it successfully, have python 2.4, or python 2.5?
>
> --Kamilche
>