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Pillow is a replacement for PIL that works as a drop-in replacement.
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Unlike PIL, it's actively maintained and easy to install. It's pretty
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great. There's only one problem, which is that users must first
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uninstall PIL before installing Pillow, as they share a namespace.
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This makes it very hard for Python modules or products that need to
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run on a variety of configurations to easily depend on either PIL
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or Pillow without inevitably breaking something (perhaps in subtle
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ways). That makes it hard to safely transition.
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This package aims to "solve" that by providing a single dependency
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that can intelligently depend on either PIL or Pillow, based on what's
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already on the system. Packages that still need to work if PIL is
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installed, but aim to transition to Pillow, can simply depend on the
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pillowfight package.
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