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- Regular releases to the Python Packaging Index - Regular releases to the Python Packaging Index
- Solicitation for community contributions and involvement on Imaging-SIG - Solicitation for community contributions and involvement on Imaging-SIG
Why a fork? Porting your Python code from PIL to Pillow
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PIL is not setuptools compatible. Please see http://mail.python.org/pipermail/image-sig/2010-August/006480.html for a more detailed explanation. Also, PIL's current bi-yearly (or greater) release schedule is too infrequent to accomodate the large number and frequency of issues reported. .. Note:: PIL and Pillow currently cannot co-existent. If you want to use Pillow, please remove PIL first.
Porting Pillow is a functional drop-in replacement for the Python Imaging Library. To run your existing PIL code with Pillow, it needs to be modified to import the Imaging modules from the **PIL namespace instead of the global namespace**.
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Pillow is a functional drop-in for the Python Imaging Library. To run under Pillow, existing code needs to be modified to import the Imaging modules from the PIL namespace instead of the global namespace.
Change:: Change::
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from PIL import Image from PIL import Image
Note that if your code imports _imaging, that will also be hosted in the PIL namespace. The preferred, future proof method of importing the private _imaging module is:: .. Note:: If your code imports _imaging, it will no longer work.
The preferred, future proof method of importing the private _imaging module is::
from PIL import Image from PIL import Image
_imaging = Image.core _imaging = Image.core
Why a fork?
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PIL is not setuptools compatible. Please see http://mail.python.org/pipermail/image-sig/2010-August/006480.html for a more detailed explanation. Also, PIL's current bi-yearly (or greater) release schedule is too infrequent to accomodate the large number and frequency of issues reported.
What about image code bugs? What about image code bugs?
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