Porting existing PIL-based code to Pillow ========================================= Pillow is a functional drop-in replacement for the Python Imaging Library. To run your existing PIL-compatible code with Pillow, it needs to be modified to import the ``Image`` module from the ``PIL`` namespace *instead* of the global namespace. Change this:: import Image to this:: from PIL import Image The :py:mod:`_imaging` module has been moved. You can now import it like this:: from PIL.Image import core as _imaging The image plugin loading mechanism has changed. Pillow no longer automatically imports any file in the Python path with a name ending in :file:`ImagePlugin.py`. You will need to import your image plugin manually.