wxImage and segmentation fault

Hi, I'm on a debian amd64 machine. Whenever I access a bitmap in
wxpython I get something like the following:

import wx
i=wx.Image('closetab.png',wx.BITMAP_TYPE_ANY)

> Segmentation fault

Has anyone else had this problem? I think its related to Python
Imaging Library (PIL) and have tried replacing Debian "etch" distro's
native one as well as compiling wxPython with its built-in image
libraries but so far haven't gotten either of those to work...

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