PIL questions: still supported? Problems on 2.7 for win? alternatives?

[alex23]

On Sep 25, 6:25 pm, Gelonida N <gelon... at gmail.com> wrote:
> So it seems to be safe to use either Christoph' binary PIL distribution
> or to use Pillow.
>
> The fact, that pillow is accessable via PyPi / easy_install / PIP pushes
> me slightly towards pillow.


> I assume it's best to uninstall PIL before installing pillow.

I would expect you'd be fine. Being a different package, it's a
different namespace, so they shouldn't conflict.

> On a Linux machine:
> What would happen in a virtualenv with sitepackages (amonst them PIL
> installed and a pillow installed ontop of it?
> I don't think I can uninstall PIL, as many distro packages depend on it.
> I don't want to create a virtualenv without site packages, as I have
> many dependencies and some of them are a little tricky to compile.

Again, you should be fine, as it's in a separate namespace. You
definitely don't want to mess with PIL if you have other dependencies.