Pillow

Pillow is the "friendly" PIL fork, created by Alex Clark. PIL is the Python Imaging Library, created by Fredrik Lundh.

Introduction

The fork author's goal is to foster active development of PIL through:

• Publicized development activity
• Solicitation for community contributions
• Regular releases to the Python Packaging Index

Why a fork?

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 slow to address the large number of issues regularly reported.

What about image code bugs?

Please report any non-packaging related issues here first:

• https://bitbucket.org/effbot/pil-2009-raclette/issues

Then open a ticket here:

• https://github.com/python-imaging/Pillow/issues

and provide a link to the first ticket so we can track the issue(s) upstream.

Documentation

The API documentation included with PIL has been converted (from HTML) to reStructured text (via pandoc) and is now hosted by readthedocs.org <http://pillow.readthedocs.org>_.