Python graphics / imaging library

[Peter Chant]

Chaps,

what's the most appropriate (maintained) graphics library to use? PIL seems
to have last been updated in 2006 http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/
and GD seems to be even older. Don't want to go down a dead end.

Pete

 

[Michiel Overtoom]

what's the most appropriate (maintained) graphics library to use? PIL seems
to have last been updated in 2006 http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/
and GD seems to be even older. Don't want to go down a dead end.

Contrary to organic material, software doesn't rot when it gets older.

PIL is pretty complete for the task it was designed to do, pretty
debugged during the past years, and pretty much 'finished' -- it doesn't
need frequent updates anymore.

Greetings,

 

[Peter Chant]

Contrary to organic material, software doesn't rot when it gets older.

PIL is pretty complete for the task it was designed to do, pretty
debugged during the past years, and pretty much 'finished' -- it doesn't
need frequent updates anymore.

Greetings,

No, it does not. However, if PIL was updated last in 2006. Python in 2009
has gone to version 3.1. If PIL is compatible with 3.1 then I'm fine. But
I don't want to have to stick with Python 2.5 as the rest of the world
moves on.

Pete

 

[Peter Chant]

Peter Chant wrote:

No, it does not. However, if PIL was updated last in 2006. Python in
2009
has gone to version 3.1. If PIL is compatible with 3.1 then I'm fine.
But I don't want to have to stick with Python 2.5 as the rest of the world
moves on.

BTW, this was not a critisism of PIL or GD, rather what do people generally
use now?

 

[Michiel Overtoom]

what do people generally use now?

I can only speak for myself... I use PIL ;-)

Greetings,

 

[Max Erickson]

No, it does not. However, if PIL was updated last in 2006.
Python in 2009 has gone to version 3.1. If PIL is compatible
with 3.1 then I'm fine. But I don't want to have to stick with
Python 2.5 as the rest of the world moves on.

Pete

Various messages to the Image-SIG mailing list indicate that support
for 3.x is coming after a release of 1.1.7:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/image-sig/2009-March/005498.html

More here:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/image-sig/2009-March/thread.html

More recent months contain updates to the status of 1.1.7, it is
headed towards a release. Preliminary tarballs and binaries are
available on effbot.org:

http://effbot.org/downloads/#imaging
http://effbot.org/downloads/#pil


max

 

[Peter Chant]

More recent months contain updates to the status of 1.1.7, it is
headed towards a release. Preliminary tarballs and binaries are
available on effbot.org:

http://effbot.org/downloads/#imaging
http://effbot.org/downloads/#pil

Excellent. From a very brief look it seems like it will be quite simple to
use.

Pete