AttributeError: tobytes

[bergonzzi]

I have Python 2.7.5 on Mac OSX Mavericks with PIL 1.1.7 and I get the following when running the xkcd.py example:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "xkcd.py", line 66, in <module>
    for pix in i.tobytes():
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/PIL/Image.py", line 512, in __getattr__
    raise AttributeError(name)
AttributeError: tobytes

I was able to fix it by changing line 66 from:

for pix in i.tobytes():

to

for pix in i.tostring():

I found it with some help from this stackoverflow question. It seems like the official PIL 1.1.7 still uses the tostring method while Pillow is deprecating it in favor of tobytes (although it still supports the old one).

A simple approach to deal with this could be to just test the attribute first:

   try:
        i_converted = i.tobytes()
    except AttributeError:
        i_converted = i.tostring()

    for pix in i_converted:
    (...)

[asciimoo]

Thank you, i couldn't test it, but i hope it's fixed