namespaced operation works when installed as a zipped egg using 'sudo python[3] setup.py easy_install -l --zip-ok .'

PIL/Image.py

@@ -26,8 +26,7 @@
 
 from __future__ import print_function
 
-VERSION = "1.1.7"
-PILLOW_VERSION = "2.0.0"
+from PIL import VERSION, PILLOW_VERSION, _plugins
 
 try:
     import warnings
@@ -336,34 +335,15 @@ def init():
     if _initialized >= 2:
         return 0
 
-    visited = {}
-
-    directories = sys.path
-
-    try:
-        directories = directories + [os.path.dirname(__file__)]
-    except NameError:
-        pass
-
-    # only check directories (including current, if present in the path)
-    for directory in filter(isDirectory, directories):
-        fullpath = os.path.abspath(directory)
-        if fullpath in visited:
-            continue
-        for file in os.listdir(directory):
-            if file[-14:] == "ImagePlugin.py":
-                f, e = os.path.splitext(file)
-                try:
-                    sys.path.insert(0, directory)
-                    try:
-                        __import__(f, globals(), locals(), [])
-                    finally:
-                        del sys.path[0]
-                except ImportError:
-                    if DEBUG:
-                        print("Image: failed to import", end=' ')
-                        print(f, ":", sys.exc_info()[1])
-        visited[fullpath] = None
+    for plugin in _plugins:
+        try:
+            if DEBUG:
+                print ("Importing %s"%plugin)
+            __import__("PIL.%s"%plugin, globals(), locals(), [])
+        except ImportError:
+            if DEBUG:
+                print("Image: failed to import", end=' ')
+                print(plugin, ":", sys.exc_info()[1])
 
     if OPEN or SAVE:
         _initialized = 2

PIL/__init__.py

@@ -10,3 +10,48 @@
 #
 
 # ;-)
+
+VERSION = '1.1.7'  # PIL version
+PILLOW_VERSION = '2.0.0' # Pillow
+
+_plugins = ['ArgImagePlugin',
+            'BmpImagePlugin',
+            'BufrStubImagePlugin',
+            'CurImagePlugin',
+            'DcxImagePlugin',
+            'EpsImagePlugin',
+            'FitsStubImagePlugin',
+            'FliImagePlugin',
+            'FpxImagePlugin',
+            'GbrImagePlugin',
+            'GifImagePlugin',
+            'GribStubImagePlugin',
+            'Hdf5StubImagePlugin',
+            'IcnsImagePlugin',
+            'IcoImagePlugin',
+            'ImImagePlugin',
+            'ImtImagePlugin',
+            'IptcImagePlugin',
+            'JpegImagePlugin',
+            'McIdasImagePlugin',
+            'MicImagePlugin',
+            'MpegImagePlugin',
+            'MspImagePlugin',
+            'PalmImagePlugin',
+            'PcdImagePlugin',
+            'PcxImagePlugin',
+            'PdfImagePlugin',
+            'PixarImagePlugin',
+            'PngImagePlugin',
+            'PpmImagePlugin',
+            'PsdImagePlugin',
+            'SgiImagePlugin',
+            'SpiderImagePlugin',
+            'SunImagePlugin',
+            'TgaImagePlugin',
+            'TiffImagePlugin',
+            'WebPImagePlugin',
+            'WmfImagePlugin',
+            'XbmImagePlugin',
+            'XpmImagePlugin',
+            'XVThumbImagePlugin']

setup.py

@@ -499,4 +499,5 @@ setup(
     scripts=glob.glob("Scripts/pil*.py"),
     keywords=["Imaging",],
     license='Standard PIL License',
+    zip_safe=True,
     )