Pillow/docs/porting-pil-to-pillow.rst
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Porting existing PIL-based code to Pillow
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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
global namespace. Change this::
import Image
to this::
from PIL import Image
The :py:mod:`_imaging` module has been moved. You can now import it like this::
from PIL.Image import core as _imaging
The image plugin loading mechanism has changed. Pillow no longer
automatically imports any file in the Python path with a name ending
in :file:`ImagePlugin.py`. You will need to import your image plugin
manually.