Re: PIL questions: still supported? Problems on 2.7 for win? alternatives?

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On 09/25/2012 02:42 PM, alex23 wrote:
> On Sep 25, 6:25 pm, Gelonida N <gelon...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> So it seems to be safe to use either Christoph' binary PIL distribution
>> or to use Pillow.
>>
>> The fact, that pillow is accessable via PyPi / easy_install / PIP pushes
>> me slightly towards pillow.
>
>
>> I assume it's best to uninstall PIL before installing pillow.
>
> I would expect you'd be fine. Being a different package, it's a
> different namespace, so they shouldn't conflict.

This is what is confusing me.
if I start with a new python and I just install Pillow, then pillow is 
imported via
import PIL
so it does not seem to have a separate name space

If I had PIL and pillow installed, then I wouldn't even know how to 
choose which one to import.


>
>> On a Linux machine:
>> What would happen in a virtualenv with sitepackages (amonst them PIL
>> installed and a pillow installed ontop of it?
>> I don't think I can uninstall PIL, as many distro packages depend on it.
>> I don't want to create a virtualenv without site packages, as I have
>> many dependencies and some of them are a little tricky to compile.
>
> Again, you should be fine, as it's in a separate namespace. You
> definitely don't want to mess with PIL if you have other dependencies.

Well I'm slightly confused, but will play a little to see what exactly works

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PIL questions: still supported? Problems on 2.7 for win? alternatives? Gelonida N <gelonida@gmail.com> - 2012-09-24 22:04 +0200
  Re: PIL questions: still supported? Problems on 2.7 for win? alternatives? alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2012-09-24 16:38 -0700
    Re: PIL questions: still supported? Problems on 2.7 for win? alternatives? cjgohlke@gmail.com - 2012-09-24 17:32 -0700
    Re: PIL questions: still supported? Problems on 2.7 for win? alternatives? Alex Clark <aclark@aclark.net> - 2012-09-24 21:46 -0400
      Re: PIL questions: still supported? Problems on 2.7 for win? alternatives? alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2012-09-24 19:11 -0700
    Re: PIL questions: still supported? Problems on 2.7 for win? alternatives? Gelonida N <gelonida@gmail.com> - 2012-09-25 10:25 +0200
      Re: PIL questions: still supported? Problems on 2.7 for win? alternatives? alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2012-09-25 05:42 -0700
        Re: PIL questions: still supported? Problems on 2.7 for win? alternatives? Gelonida N <gelonida@gmail.com> - 2012-09-26 23:43 +0200
          Re: PIL questions: still supported? Problems on 2.7 for win? alternatives? alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2012-09-26 17:28 -0700
  Re: PIL questions: still supported? Problems on 2.7 for win? alternatives? alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2012-09-24 19:09 -0700

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