Deprecations and removals¶
This page lists Pillow features that are deprecated, or have been removed in past major releases, and gives the alternatives to use instead.
Deprecated features¶
Below are features which are considered deprecated. Where appropriate,
a DeprecationWarning
is issued.
ImageCms.CmsProfile attributes¶
Deprecated since version 3.2.0.
Some attributes in ImageCms.CmsProfile
are deprecated. From 6.0.0, they issue a
DeprecationWarning
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Removed features¶
Deprecated features are only removed in major releases after an appropriate period of deprecation has passed.
Python 2.7¶
Removed in version 7.0.0.
Python 2.7 reached end-of-life on 2020-01-01. Pillow 6.x was the last series to support Python 2.
Image.__del__¶
Removed in version 7.0.0.
Implicitly closing the image’s underlying file in Image.__del__
has been removed.
Use a context manager or call Image.close()
instead to close the file in a
deterministic way.
Previous method:
im = Image.open("hopper.png")
im.save("out.jpg")
Use instead:
with Image.open("hopper.png") as im:
im.save("out.jpg")
PILLOW_VERSION constant¶
Removed in version 7.0.0.
PILLOW_VERSION
has been removed. Use __version__
instead.
PIL.*ImagePlugin.__version__ attributes¶
Removed in version 7.0.0.
The version constants of individual plugins have been removed. Use PIL.__version__
instead.
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PyQt4 and PySide¶
Removed in version 7.0.0.
Qt 4 reached end-of-life on 2015-12-19. Its Python bindings are also EOL: PyQt4 since 2018-08-31 and PySide since 2015-10-14.
Support for PyQt4 and PySide has been removed from ImageQt
. Please upgrade to PyQt5
or PySide2.
Setting the size of TIFF images¶
Removed in version 7.0.0.
Setting the size of a TIFF image directly (eg. im.size = (256, 256)
) throws
an error. Use Image.resize
instead.
VERSION constant¶
Removed in version 6.0.0.
VERSION
(the old PIL version, always 1.1.7) has been removed. Use
__version__
instead.
Undocumented ImageOps functions¶
Removed in version 6.0.0.
Several undocumented functions in ImageOps
have been removed. Use the equivalents
in ImageFilter
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PIL.OleFileIO¶
Removed in version 6.0.0.
PIL.OleFileIO was removed as a vendored file and in Pillow 4.0.0 (2017-01) in favour of
the upstream olefile Python package, and replaced with an ImportError
in 5.0.0
(2018-01). The deprecated file has now been removed from Pillow. If needed, install from
PyPI (eg. pip install olefile
).