The Python Imaging Library
Updated Aug 02
The Python Imaging Library (PIL) adds image processing capabilities to your Python interpreter. This library supports many file formats, and provides fairly powerful image processing and graphics capabilities.
Like Python itself, PIL is copyrighted
but can be used without fee. This also applies to commercial
applications. However, we encourage commercial users to support our
development efforts by purchasing a support
package. See below for details.
Purchase PILsupport!
Commercial Support: If you're using Python in
commercial applications, or mission-critical internal applications, we
recommend you to purchase a PIL support
package. This includes priority mail support, patches for bugs
that don't have simple workarounds, early access to the development
code base, and the PIL Plus extension package.
Free Support: For free support resources, see the
support section
of the PIL handbook. Before you ask for help, check the list of known bugs and other common issues.
Download: The following 1.0 downloads are currently available:
Binary packages for Linux are available for RedHat and SUSE (thanks to Oliver Andrich) and Debian (thanks to Matthias Klose).
For documentation, check the library.
news
PXC-200 Frame Grabber Support
Posted Dec 28
Andrew Kuchling has released a PXC-200
frame grabber interface for PIL.
PIL 1.0 final is released
Updated Aug 02
Get your free copy from the downloads section!
Data Mining with PIL
Posted Jun 18
Anthony Baxter has written a data mining tool, based on Digital Creation's Zope server. It uses PIL to generate graphs.
See the datamine
demo page for more information.
PIL at the Python Conference
Updated Dec 30
The recent Python conference was a great success. Not only did we finally get to meet all the Python gurus (most of them, at least -- Tim Peters didn't make it this year), we also discovered that the Python Imaging Library is used all over the place.
For example, four out of fourteen demos and posters used PIL in one way or another:
Is PIL Year 2000 Compliant?
Posted Oct 19
As far as we are aware of, all releases of PIL are fully Y2K compliant. more>>>