Regression: PIL.Image.split() does not load data before reference

[Charles Duffy]

Binary package hint: python-imaging

This issue was introduced in PIL 1.1.7, reported upstream at http://code.activestate.com/lists/python-image-sig/5994/, and ultimately resolved using the patch at http://hg.effbot.org/pil-2009-raclette/changeset/fb7ce579f5f9

$ python
Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Apr 16 2010, 13:09:56)
[GCC 4.4.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import PIL.Image
>>> PIL.Image.open('/usr/share/pixmaps/faces/dice.jpg').split()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "PIL/Image.py", line 1497, in split
    if self.im.bands == 1:
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'bands'

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: python-imaging 1.1.7-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.41-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Sep 10 14:58:40 2010
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: python-imaging