A test for checking if PIL has Jpeg support, including instructions to fix it for Ubuntu

Django PIL Jpeg support test

import os
import unittest
from os.path import abspath
from PIL import Image

class PhotoTests(unittest.TestCase):
    """Checks JPEG support for your system. You need a folder 'testdata' that has a test.jpg in it
       could be improved, but works fine for me at the moment"""
    def test_jpg(self):
        image_path = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
        image_path = os.path.join(image_path, "testdata", "test.jpg")
        trial_image = Image.open(image_path)
        try:
            trial_image.load()
        except:
            print "!!!NO JPEG SUPPORT!!!"
            print "To fix this:"
            print "sudo aptitude install libjpeg libjpeg-dev"
            print "sudo aptitude install libfreetype6 libfreetype6-dev"
            print "in your virtual env: pip install http://effbot.org/media/downloads/Imaging-1.1.6.tar.gz"
            self.assertTrue(False)