Question: Question:
About PIL.
When installing using pip
sudo pip install pillow
But when importing
import PIL
Why are pillow and PIL names different?
Answer: Answer:
Pillow
is a fork of a library called PIL
, so in this case Pillow
's import
is the same as the original library's import
. In other words, Pillow
's import
is the same as PIL
's import
because Pillow
is a library that can be used as a replacement for PIL
.
Also, PIL
itself is not compatible with setuptools
by nature, and it seems that the PIL
development schedule was too late for some developers to properly fix bugs and problems, so PIL
is finally a fork. It seems that it was done.