Python Imaging Library
| Python Imaging Library | |
|---|---|
| Original author(s) | Fredrik Lundh |
| Developer(s) | Secret Labs AB |
| Initial release | 1995 |
| Stable release | 1.1.7
/ November 15, 2009 |
| Preview release | 1.2a0
/ 2011 |
| Written in | Python, C |
| Type | Library for image processing |
| License | Historical Permission Notice and Disclaimer |
| Website | python-pillow |
| Pillow | |
|---|---|
| Original author(s) | Jeffrey A. Clark (Alex) |
| Initial release | 31 July 2010 |
| Stable release | 11.1.0
/ January 2, 2025 |
| Written in | Python, C |
| Type | Library for image processing |
| License | Historical Permission Notice and Disclaimer |
| Website | python-pillow |
Python Imaging Library is a free and open-source additional library for the Python programming language that adds support for opening, manipulating, and saving many different image file formats. It is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. The latest version of PIL is 1.1.7, was released in September 2009 and supports Python 1.5.2–2.7.
Development of the original project, known as PIL, was discontinued in 2011. Subsequently, a successor project named Pillow forked the PIL repository and added Python 3.x support. This fork has been adopted as a replacement for the original PIL in Linux distributions including Debian and Ubuntu (since 13.04).