[Tutor] importing from PIL

[Chris Roy-Smith]

On 12/8/20 12:45 pm, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote:
> On 12/08/2020 03:31, Chris Roy-Smith wrote:
> 
>> Synaptic (package manager) doesn't show other Pillow packages (for 3.8)
>> as opposed to 3.6.
> 
> I'd check the Pillow home page, the packages are not always as well
> aligned with versions as they should be.
> 
>> I think it might be simpler to "downgrade" the windows box to Python
>> 3.6.x. I know that the code works well that way.
> 
> Python 3.6 code should work fine on 3.8.
> It's only the other way round you'd potentially have issues.
> 
> Unless 3.8 breaks importing rules from 3.6.. I don't know I only
> upgraded to 3.7 last month, I'm a long way from even
> considering 3.8... I think...
> 
> I tell a lie, Mint 20 appears to install 3.8 and I upgraded
> Mint to v20 last week to try and fix a long term Cinnamon issue.
> So I've been inadvertently running 3.8 for a week! :-)
> 
Down grading to 3.6.3 fixed all problems in Linux and Windows ;)