repeated numpy import leads to crash

[sim590]

See this for the thread on the error.

This concerns kodi65 since one of its modules imports PIL which makes use of numpy. Therefore, executing multiple times some plugin functionnality making use of kodi65's imagetools module, for instance, leads to a crash. More precisely, I have found that extendedinfo plugin would not execute itself more than once before getting the crash. That is when pressing the up-arrow for getting extended information about some actor of film/series, pressing a second time triggers the crash. I did go around that issue by removing import calls to kodi65's imagetools module. Here is a diff of the change I have made on file imagetools.py to go around the issue:

10c10
< import PIL.ImageFilter
---
> # import PIL.ImageFilter
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<         imgfilter = MyGaussianBlur(radius=radius)
<         img = img.convert('RGB').filter(imgfilter)
---
>         # imgfilter = MyGaussianBlur(radius=radius)
>         # img = img.convert('RGB').filter(imgfilter)
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< class MyGaussianBlur(PIL.ImageFilter.Filter):
<     name = "GaussianBlur"
---
> # class MyGaussianBlur(PIL.ImageFilter.Filter):
> #     name = "GaussianBlur"
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<     def __init__(self, radius=2):
<         self.radius = radius
---
> #     def __init__(self, radius=2):
> #         self.radius = radius
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<     def filter(self, image):
<         return image.gaussian_blur(self.radius)
---
> #     def filter(self, image):
> #         return image.gaussian_blur(self.radius)

Please, find a way of going more cleanly around the numpy issue. In short, I think the solution revolves around mattip's comment on the issue.

[malaterre]

AFAIK numpy/numpy#14384 seems to be fixed now.