How to use the Python Imaging Library

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Post by compcm » Thu, Nov 07, 2013, 3:17 PM UTC

How to use the Python Imaging Library
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Re: How to use the Python Imaging Library

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Post by thatthatis » Thu, Nov 07, 2013, 3:50 PM UTC

This is missing step one: use Pillow instead of PIL

Re: How to use the Python Imaging Library

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Post by AbsoluteDestiny » Thu, Nov 07, 2013, 3:52 PM UTC

An article posted 7th Nov 2013 should not be recommending use of PIL (a dead project) over Pillow, imo. The only reference to Pillow in the article is a link at the bottom to the Pillow tutorial.

Re: How to use the Python Imaging Library

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Post by trurl42 » Thu, Nov 07, 2013, 3:57 PM UTC

When drawing something from scratch, I found Pycairo to be much more useful.

http://cairographics.org/pycairo/

Re: How to use the Python Imaging Library

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Post by infocollector » Thu, Nov 07, 2013, 3:59 PM UTC

PIL is dead. How did this get 14+ points?

Re: How to use the Python Imaging Library

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Post by temuze » Thu, Nov 07, 2013, 4:16 PM UTC

AbsoluteDestiny wrote: post #3

An article posted 7th Nov 2013 should not be recommending use of PIL (a dead project) over Pillow, imo. The only reference to Pillow in the article is a link at the bottom to the Pillow tutorial.

Upvote for Pillow. For those of you who don't know, Pillow is a fork of PIL that is: - Pip/setuptools compatible - Python 3 compatible - Has more regular releases.

This is a great example of what to do when an open source project is getting behind on the times. PIL was having bi-year releases and installation was a headache, so someone forked it and made it better.

Re: How to use the Python Imaging Library

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Post by wiredfool » Thu, Nov 07, 2013, 4:27 PM UTC

AbsoluteDestiny wrote: post #3

An article posted 7th Nov 2013 should not be recommending use of PIL (a dead project) over Pillow, imo. The only reference to Pillow in the article is a link at the bottom to the Pillow tutorial.

I'm a maintainer for pillow. Feel free to ask any questions.

(I'm not sure PIL is a dead project. It's just resting. Beautiful plumage through)

Re: How to use the Python Imaging Library

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Post by chrismmccomas » Thu, Nov 07, 2013, 4:30 PM UTC

wiredfool wrote: post #7

AbsoluteDestiny wrote: post #3

An article posted 7th Nov 2013 should not be recommending use of PIL (a dead project) over Pillow, imo. The only reference to Pillow in the article is a link at the bottom to the Pillow tutorial.

I'm a maintainer for pillow. Feel free to ask any questions. (I'm not sure PIL is a dead project. It's just resting. Beautiful plumage through)

I know Django isn't end all, be all, but with them moving forward towards 1.8 where PIL will be completely depreciated, that's really the first nail in the coffin for PIL.

Re: How to use the Python Imaging Library

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Post by agumonkey » Thu, Nov 07, 2013, 4:41 PM UTC

AbsoluteDestiny wrote: post #3

An article posted 7th Nov 2013 should not be recommending use of PIL (a dead project) over Pillow, imo. The only reference to Pillow in the article is a link at the bottom to the Pillow tutorial.

url : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pillow/1.7.8

Re: How to use the Python Imaging Library

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Post by wiredfool » Thu, Nov 07, 2013, 4:49 PM UTC

agumonkey wrote: post #9

AbsoluteDestiny wrote: post #3

An article posted 7th Nov 2013 should not be recommending use of PIL (a dead project) over Pillow, imo. The only reference to Pillow in the article is a link at the bottom to the Pillow tutorial.

url : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pillow/1.7.8

Even better: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pillow/2.2.1

(though, it doesn't support py<=2.5)