Which of the two should we use and why?
My Kubuntu 22.04 OS comes with python3-pil installed. Can I install python3-pillow and use both of them?
You only use
Pillow.
Original maintainers of the PIL stopped working on it a long time⏲ ago.
Pillow is repackaged(drop-in replacement) and much updated version of original PIL
Still use
PIl in import as in original just to keep backward compatible.
from PIL import Image
img = Image.open('image.png').convert('L')
img.save('greyscale.png')Gribouillis Wrote:My Kubuntu 22.04 OS comes with python3-pil installed. Can I install python3-pillow and use both of them?
I would not use OS install at all,they may not be updated.
Just use pip.
pip install Pillow --upgrade
(Aug-12-2022, 02:08 PM)snippsat Wrote: [ -> ]Just use pip.
I did that and it seems to work well
Output:
λ python -m pip install Pillow --upgrade
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Requirement already satisfied: Pillow in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (9.0.1)
Collecting Pillow
Downloading Pillow-9.2.0-cp310-cp310-manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl (3.2 MB)
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Installing collected packages: Pillow
Successfully installed Pillow-9.2.0
λ python
Python 3.10.4 (main, Jun 29 2022, 12:14:53) [GCC 11.2.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import PIL
>>> PIL
<module 'PIL' from '/home/eric/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/PIL/__init__.py'>
>>>
λ python -m PIL
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Pillow 9.2.0
Python 3.10.4 (main, Jun 29 2022, 12:14:53) [GCC 11.2.0]
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