This page lists Pillow features that are deprecated, or have been removed in past major releases, and gives the alternatives to use instead.
Below are features which are considered deprecated. Where appropriate, a DeprecationWarning is issued.
6.1.0
Implicitly closing the image's underlying file in Image.__del__ has been deprecated. Use a context manager or call Image.close() instead to close the file in a deterministic way.
Deprecated:
im = Image.open("hopper.png")
im.save("out.jpg")Use instead:
with Image.open("hopper.png") as im:
im.save("out.jpg")6.0.0
Python 2.7 reaches end-of-life on 2020-01-01.
Pillow 7.0.0 will be released on 2020-01-01 and will drop support for Python 2.7, making Pillow 6.x the last series to support Python 2.
6.0.0
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 deprecated from ImageQt and will be removed in a future version. Please upgrade to PyQt5 or PySide2.
6.0.0
The version constants of individual plugins have been deprecated and will be removed in a future version. Use PIL.__version__ instead.
| Deprecated | Deprecated | Deprecated |
|---|---|---|
BmpImagePlugin.__version__ |
Jpeg2KImagePlugin.__version__ |
PngImagePlugin.__version__ |
CurImagePlugin.__version__ |
JpegImagePlugin.__version__ |
PpmImagePlugin.__version__ |
DcxImagePlugin.__version__ |
McIdasImagePlugin.__version__ |
PsdImagePlugin.__version__ |
EpsImagePlugin.__version__ |
MicImagePlugin.__version__ |
SgiImagePlugin.__version__ |
FliImagePlugin.__version__ |
MpegImagePlugin.__version__ |
SunImagePlugin.__version__ |
FpxImagePlugin.__version__ |
MpoImagePlugin.__version__ |
TgaImagePlugin.__version__ |
GdImageFile.__version__ |
MspImagePlugin.__version__ |
TiffImagePlugin.__version__ |
GifImagePlugin.__version__ |
PalmImagePlugin.__version__ |
WmfImagePlugin.__version__ |
IcoImagePlugin.__version__ |
PcdImagePlugin.__version__ |
XbmImagePlugin.__version__ |
ImImagePlugin.__version__ |
PcxImagePlugin.__version__ |
XpmImagePlugin.__version__ |
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5.3.0
Setting the image size of a TIFF image (eg. im.size = (256, 256)) issues a DeprecationWarning:
Setting the size of a TIFF image directly is deprecated, and will
be removed in a future version. Use the resize method instead.5.2.0
PILLOW_VERSION has been deprecated and will be removed in 7.0.0. Use __version__ instead.
3.2.0
Some attributes in ImageCms.CmsProfile are deprecated. From 6.0.0, they issue a DeprecationWarning:
| Deprecated | Use instead |
|---|---|
color_space |
Padded xcolor_space |
pcs |
Padded connection_space |
product_copyright |
Unicode copyright |
product_desc |
Unicode profile_description |
product_description |
Unicode profile_description |
product_manufacturer |
Unicode manufacturer |
product_model |
Unicode model |
Deprecated features are only removed in major releases after an appropriate period of deprecation has passed.
Removed in version 6.0.0.
VERSION (the old PIL version, always 1.1.7) has been removed. Use __version__ instead.
Removed in version 6.0.0.
Several undocumented functions in ImageOps have been removed. Use the equivalents in ImageFilter instead:
| Removed | Use instead |
|---|---|
ImageOps.box_blur |
ImageFilter.BoxBlur |
ImageOps.gaussian_blur |
ImageFilter.GaussianBlur |
ImageOps.gblur |
ImageFilter.GaussianBlur |
ImageOps.usm |
ImageFilter.UnsharpMask |
ImageOps.unsharp_mask |
ImageFilter.UnsharpMask |
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).