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Unlike PIL, Pillow does not support Python 2
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**Porting existing PIL-based code to Pillow**
Pillow is a functional drop-in replacement for the Python Imaging Library. To
run your existing PIL-compatible code with Pillow, it needs to be modified to
import the ``Image`` module from the ``PIL`` namespace *instead* of the
Pillow is a functional drop-in replacement for the Python Imaging Library.
PIL is Python 2 only. Pillow dropped support for Python 2 in Pillow
7.0. So if you would like to run the latest version of Pillow, you will first
and foremost need to port your code from Python 2 to 3.
To run your existing PIL-compatible code with Pillow, it needs to be modified
to import the ``Image`` module from the ``PIL`` namespace *instead* of the
global namespace. Change this::
import Image