Incompatibility with Pillow v6.x

[hugorodgerbrown]

The Image.VERSION attribute was removed in Pillow from version 6 on (python-pillow/Pillow@ef9bf76). This causes errors wherever it is calle:

reportlab/src/reportlab/lib/utils.py

Lines 867 to 871 in 48cafb6

	if mode=='RGBA':
	if Image.VERSION.startswith('1.1.7'): im.load()
	self._dataA = ImageReader(im.split()[3])
	im = im.convert('RGB')
	self.mode = 'RGB'

Intermediate fix is to use PILLOW_VERSION instead, although this will also be removed in future versions.

[datadidit]

We just ran into this as well had to hardcode the pillow version in the requirements.txt to get it to work as a work around

Pillow==5.4.1

This needs have a top level req https://github.com/Distrotech/reportlab/blob/master/setup.py#L541 or code needs to be updated to not be dependent on getting VERSION.

[hugorodgerbrown]

It looks like issues are only being responded to on Bitbucket?

[datadidit]

@hugorodgerbrown yeah several people have brought it up on their bitbucket too. Given they just did a release recently I'm hoping they push out a fix soon.

Installing Pillow after reportlab is a temporary patch.

[alexey-v-paramonov]

Patch:

https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/blob/master/dev-python/reportlab/files/reportlab-3.5.13-pillow-VERSION.patch