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On 2015-04-08 01:54, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 07/04/2015 23:43, kai.peters@gmail.com wrote:
>> I just wrote this bit (coming from Pascal) and am wondering how seasoned
>> Python programmers would have done the same? Anything terribly non-python?
>>
>> As always, thanks for all input.
>>
>> import os, sys
>> from PIL import Image, ImageFont, ImageDraw
>>
>
> As you've had plenty of answers I'll just say that PIL is pretty old now.  Are
> you aware of the fork called Pillow? https://pillow.readthedocs.org/

Pillow uses the name "PIL" for its package name too, in the interest of being 
drop-in compatible.

https://pillow.readthedocs.org/porting-pil-to-pillow.html

-- 
Robert Kern

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