Python graphics / imaging library

Michiel Overtoom motoom at xs4all.nl
Sat Jul 18 07:38:14 EDT 2009


Peter Chant wrote:

> what's the most appropriate (maintained) graphics library to use?  PIL seems
> to have last been updated in 2006 http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/
> and GD seems to be even older.  Don't want to go down a dead end.

Contrary to organic material, software doesn't rot when it gets older.

PIL is pretty complete for the task it was designed to do, pretty 
debugged during the past years, and pretty much 'finished' -- it doesn't 
need frequent updates anymore.

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