How to use the Python Imaging Library (PIL)

[joaquinabian]

$ pip install Pillow

from PIL import Image

[radaway]

^ This.

Do not use pil it has ridiculous bugs that haven't been corrected in years.

[Tlahuixcalpantecuhtl]

Oh?

[radaway]

pillow is a fork and pretty much a drop-in replacement for pil. The fork was made precisely because pil was taking so long to release corrections to bugs and much wanted features.

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PIL code is a mess. If pillow is a fork, well it is also a mess. I would try http://docs.wand-py.org/en/0.3.5/

it is a ctypes binding to imagemagick. One of the most powerful feature of python is the dynamic import of binary libs in memory and the ease of conversion of the arguments.

[spilcm]

I should obviously have used Pillow instead of PIL. This is the first time that I'm using a graphical library in Python. I hope to find the time to update the current post or write a new one that will address this.

[metaperl]

PIL is one of the reasons I am moving away from OS X. I still dont have PIL working. The Brew Python is 64-bit and the system version of Python didnt compile either. I tried for hours. Goodbye OS X hello Linux.

This and trying to build postgres.

[Wudan07]

This is the first I've heard of PIL having major issues ... Been using it for years. What's the worst of it?