From d56cd4dcb2e3ed06d6ef40cbe6cca3f57355187d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Cupitt <jcupitt@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 09:36:04 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] note py problem

---
 TODO                                 | 6 ++++++
 python/packages/gi/overrides/Vips.py | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 78ccb86f..03de27da 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+- python can't set new metadata, it can only set existing metadata
+
+	im.set_value("banana", 12)
+
+  will fail as Vips.py tries to look up the type of "banana"
+
 - add more webp tests to py suite
 
 - try moving some more of the CLI tests to py
diff --git a/python/packages/gi/overrides/Vips.py b/python/packages/gi/overrides/Vips.py
index 8f286923..7363a6d6 100644
--- a/python/packages/gi/overrides/Vips.py
+++ b/python/packages/gi/overrides/Vips.py
@@ -869,8 +869,8 @@ class Image(Vips.Image):
         For example, bytes() can be used to set VipsBlob fields. 
         """
         gtype = self.get_typeof(field)
-        logger.debug('assigning %s to %s' % (value, self))
-        logger.debug('%s needs a %s' % (self, gtype))
+        logger.debug('%s.%s = %s' % (self, field, value))
+        logger.debug('%s.%s needs a %s' % (self, field, gtype))
 
         # blob-ize
         if GObject.type_is_a(gtype, vips_type_blob):