From 9116813e70188ea938c7727be42f6156595cc191 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steve Johnson Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 17:15:58 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Remove PIL porting guide from Readme --- README.rst | 18 ------------------ 1 file changed, 18 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index 7d947a7f0..9e3b5fc7c 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -194,21 +194,3 @@ Platform support Current platform support for Pillow is documented here: http://pillow.readthedocs.org/en/latest/installation.html#platform-support - -Port 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 ``Imaging`` module from the ``PIL`` namespace *instead* of the global namespace. I.e. change:: - - import Image - -to:: - - from PIL import Image - -.. Note:: If your code imports from ``_imaging``, it will no longer work. - -The preferred, future proof method of importing the private ``_imaging`` module is:: - - from PIL import Image - _imaging = Image.core