scikits-image/scikits-image — comment on commit 497b327be838d847a82c97d86aba4ad8dacf430a
File: skimage/io/_plugins/pil_plugin.py line 26
By tonysyu:

Thanks, that was the problem: I had PIL 1.1.6. Updating to 1.1.7 allowed me to create a big-endian image from an existing image (so no worries about the license). I just submitted a pull request with the new test. Thanks for your help Christoph!