crashes when generating qrcode

[anarcat]

this is a forward of https://bugs.debian.org/813602 that was reported against the monkeysign package.

it seems that PIL changed the way you generate images from strings:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/monkeysign/gtkui.py", line 306, in expose_event
    self.draw_qrcode()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/monkeysign/gtkui.py", line 317, in draw_qrcode
    self.pixbuf = self.image_to_pixbuf(self.make_qrcode(self.active_key.fpr))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/monkeysign/gtkui.py", line 342, in make_qrcode
    version, width, image = _qrencode_scaled('OPENPGP4FPR:'+fingerprint,size,0,1,2,True)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/qrencode/__init__.py", line 69, in encode_scaled
    version, src_size, im = encode(data, version, level, hint, case_sensitive)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/qrencode/__init__.py", line 47, in encode
    im = Image.fromstring('L', (size, size), data)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PIL/Image.py", line 2063, in fromstring
    "Please call frombytes() instead.")
Exception: fromstring() has been removed. Please call frombytes() instead.

this is with PIL 3.1.0.

[runejuhl]

The issue is fixed in the branch referenced here. I haven't put any effort into trying to keep backwards compatibility, so there's that. If anyone can tell me which, if any, PIL versions that do not have the frombytes function, I'd be happy to update it.

[anarcat]

looks like this was fixed in 1.2, thanks!