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.
PSFile¶
Deprecated since version 9.5.0.
The PSFile
class has been deprecated and will
be removed in Pillow 11 (2024-10-15). This class was only made as a helper to
be used internally, so there is no replacement. If you need this functionality
though, it is a very short class that can easily be recreated in your own code.
PyAccess and Image.USE_CFFI_ACCESS¶
Deprecated since version 10.0.0.
Since Pillow’s C API is now faster than PyAccess on PyPy,
PyAccess
has been deprecated and will be removed in Pillow
11.0.0 (2024-10-15). Pillow’s C API will now be used by default on PyPy instead.
Image.USE_CFFI_ACCESS
, for switching from the C API to PyAccess, is
similarly deprecated.
ImageFile.raise_oserror¶
Deprecated since version 10.2.0.
ImageFile.raise_oserror()
has been deprecated and will be removed in Pillow
12.0.0 (2025-10-15). The function is undocumented and is only useful for translating
error codes returned by a codec’s decode()
method, which ImageFile already does
automatically.
IptcImageFile helper functions¶
Deprecated since version 10.2.0.
The functions IptcImageFile.dump
and IptcImageFile.i
, and the constant
IptcImageFile.PAD
have been deprecated and will be removed in Pillow
12.0.0 (2025-10-15). These are undocumented helper functions intended
for internal use, so there is no replacement. They can each be replaced
by a single line of code using builtin functions in Python.
ImageCms constants and versions() function¶
Deprecated since version 10.3.0.
A number of constants and a function in ImageCms
have been deprecated.
This includes a table of flags based on LittleCMS version 1 which has been
replaced with a new class ImageCms.Flags
based on LittleCMS 2 flags.
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ImageMath eval()¶
Deprecated since version 10.3.0.
ImageMath.eval()
has been deprecated. Use lambda_eval()
or
unsafe_eval()
instead.
BGR;15, BGR 16 and BGR;24¶
Deprecated since version 10.4.0.
The experimental BGR;15, BGR;16 and BGR;24 modes have been deprecated.
Support for LibTIFF earlier than 4¶
Deprecated since version 10.4.0.
Support for LibTIFF earlier than version 4 has been deprecated. Upgrade to a newer version of LibTIFF instead.
Removed features¶
Deprecated features are only removed in major releases after an appropriate period of deprecation has passed.
Tk/Tcl 8.4¶
Deprecated since version 8.2.0.
Removed in version 10.0.0.
Support for Tk/Tcl 8.4 was removed in Pillow 10.0.0 (2023-07-01).
Categories¶
Deprecated since version 8.2.0.
Removed in version 10.0.0.
im.category
was removed along with the related Image.NORMAL
,
Image.SEQUENCE
and Image.CONTAINER
attributes.
To determine if an image has multiple frames or not,
getattr(im, "is_animated", False)
can be used instead.
JpegImagePlugin.convert_dict_qtables¶
Deprecated since version 8.3.0.
Removed in version 10.0.0.
Since deprecation in Pillow 8.3.0, the convert_dict_qtables
method no longer
performed any operations on the data given to it, and has been removed.
ImagePalette size parameter¶
Deprecated since version 8.4.0.
Removed in version 10.0.0.
Before Pillow 8.3.0, ImagePalette
required palette data of particular lengths by
default, and the size
parameter could be used to override that. Pillow 8.3.0
removed the default required length, also removing the need for the size
parameter.
ImageShow.Viewer.show_file file argument¶
Deprecated since version 9.1.0.
Removed in version 10.0.0.
The file
argument in show_file()
has been
removed and replaced by path
.
In effect, viewer.show_file("test.jpg")
will continue to work unchanged.
Constants¶
Deprecated since version 9.1.0.
Removed in version 10.0.0.
A number of constants have been removed.
Instead, enum.IntEnum
classes have been added.
Note
Additional Image
constants were deprecated in Pillow 9.1.0, but that
was reversed in Pillow 9.4.0 and those constants will now remain available.
See Constants
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FitsStubImagePlugin¶
Deprecated since version 9.1.0.
Removed in version 10.0.0.
The stub image plugin FitsStubImagePlugin
has been removed.
FITS images can be read without a handler through FitsImagePlugin
instead.
Font size and offset methods¶
Deprecated since version 9.2.0.
Removed in version 10.0.0.
Several functions for computing the size and offset of rendered text have been removed:
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Previous code:
from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont
font = ImageFont.truetype("Tests/fonts/FreeMono.ttf")
width, height = font.getsize("Hello world")
left, top = font.getoffset("Hello world")
im = Image.new("RGB", (100, 100))
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(im)
width, height = draw.textsize("Hello world", font)
width, height = font.getsize_multiline("Hello\nworld")
width, height = draw.multiline_textsize("Hello\nworld", font)
Use instead:
from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont
font = ImageFont.truetype("Tests/fonts/FreeMono.ttf")
left, top, right, bottom = font.getbbox("Hello world")
width, height = right - left, bottom - top
im = Image.new("RGB", (100, 100))
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(im)
width = draw.textlength("Hello world", font)
left, top, right, bottom = draw.multiline_textbbox((0, 0), "Hello\nworld", font)
width, height = right - left, bottom - top
Previously, the size
methods returned a height
that included the vertical
offset of the text, while the new bbox
methods distinguish this as a top
offset.
If you are using these methods for aligning text, consider using Text anchors instead which avoid issues that can occur with non-English text or unusual fonts. For example, instead of the following code:
from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont
font = ImageFont.truetype("Tests/fonts/FreeMono.ttf")
im = Image.new("RGB", (100, 100))
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(im)
width, height = draw.textsize("Hello world", font)
x, y = (100 - width) / 2, (100 - height) / 2
draw.text((x, y), "Hello world", font=font)
Use instead:
from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont
font = ImageFont.truetype("Tests/fonts/FreeMono.ttf")
im = Image.new("RGB", (100, 100))
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(im)
draw.text((100 / 2, 100 / 2), "Hello world", font=font, anchor="mm")
FreeTypeFont.getmask2 fill parameter¶
Deprecated since version 9.2.0.
Removed in version 10.0.0.
The undocumented fill
parameter of FreeTypeFont.getmask2()
has been
removed.
PhotoImage.paste box parameter¶
Deprecated since version 9.2.0.
Removed in version 10.0.0.
The box
parameter was unused and has been removed.
PyQt5 and PySide2¶
Deprecated since version 9.2.0.
Removed in version 10.0.0.
Qt 5 reached end-of-life on 2020-12-08 for open-source users (and will reach EOL on 2023-12-08 for commercial licence holders).
Support for PyQt5 and PySide2 has been removed from ImageQt
. Upgrade to
PyQt6 or
PySide6 instead.
Image.coerce_e¶
Deprecated since version 9.2.0.
Removed in version 10.0.0.
This undocumented method has been removed.
PILLOW_VERSION constant¶
Deprecated since version 5.2.0.
Removed in version 9.0.0.
Use __version__
instead.
It was initially removed in Pillow 7.0.0, but temporarily brought back in 7.1.0 to give projects more time to upgrade.
Image.show command parameter¶
Deprecated since version 7.2.0.
Removed in version 9.0.0.
The command
parameter has been removed. Use a subclass of
ImageShow.Viewer
instead.
Image._showxv¶
Deprecated since version 7.2.0.
Removed in version 9.0.0.
Use Image.Image.show()
instead. If custom behaviour is required, use
ImageShow.register()
to add a custom ImageShow.Viewer
class.
ImageFile.raise_ioerror¶
Deprecated since version 7.2.0.
Removed in version 9.0.0.
IOError
was merged into OSError
in Python 3.3.
So, ImageFile.raise_ioerror
has been removed.
Use ImageFile.raise_oserror
instead.
FreeType 2.7¶
Deprecated since version 8.1.0.
Removed in version 9.0.0.
Support for FreeType 2.7 has been removed.
We recommend upgrading to at least FreeType 2.10.4, which fixed a severe vulnerability introduced in FreeType 2.6 (CVE-2020-15999).
im.offset¶
Deprecated since version 1.1.2.
Removed in version 8.0.0.
im.offset()
has been removed, call ImageChops.offset()
instead.
It was documented as deprecated in PIL 1.1.2,
raised a DeprecationWarning
since 1.1.5,
an Exception
since Pillow 3.0.0
and NotImplementedError
since 3.3.0.
Image.fromstring, im.fromstring and im.tostring¶
Deprecated since version 2.0.0.
Removed in version 8.0.0.
Image.fromstring()
has been removed, callImage.frombytes()
instead.im.fromstring()
has been removed, callfrombytes()
instead.im.tostring()
has been removed, calltobytes()
instead.
They issued a DeprecationWarning
since 2.0.0,
an Exception
since 3.0.0
and NotImplementedError
since 3.3.0.
ImageCms.CmsProfile attributes¶
Deprecated since version 3.2.0.
Removed in version 8.0.0.
Some attributes in PIL.ImageCms.core.CmsProfile
have been removed.
From 6.0.0, they issued a DeprecationWarning
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Python 2.7¶
Deprecated since version 6.0.0.
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__¶
Deprecated since version 6.1.0.
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")
PIL.*ImagePlugin.__version__ attributes¶
Deprecated since version 6.0.0.
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¶
Deprecated since version 6.0.0.
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¶
Deprecated since version 5.3.0.
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¶
Deprecated since version 5.2.0.
Removed in version 6.0.0.
VERSION
(the old PIL version, always 1.1.7) has been removed. Use
__version__
instead.
Undocumented ImageOps functions¶
Deprecated since version 4.3.0.
Removed in version 6.0.0.
Several undocumented functions in ImageOps
have been removed. Use the equivalents
in ImageFilter
instead:
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PIL.OleFileIO¶
Deprecated since version 4.0.0.
Removed in version 6.0.0.
PIL.OleFileIO
was removed as a vendored file 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. python3 -m pip install olefile
).
import _imaging¶
Removed in version 2.1.0.
Pillow >= 2.1.0 no longer supports import _imaging
.
Please use from PIL.Image import core as _imaging
instead.
Pillow and PIL¶
Removed in version 1.0.0.
Pillow and PIL cannot co-exist in the same environment. Before installing Pillow, please uninstall PIL.
import Image¶
Removed in version 1.0.0.
Pillow >= 1.0 no longer supports import Image
.
Please use from PIL import Image
instead.