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<div class="section" id="deprecations-and-removals">
<span id="deprecations"></span><h1>Deprecations and removals<a class="headerlink" href="#deprecations-and-removals" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>This page lists Pillow features that are deprecated, or have been removed in
past major releases, and gives the alternatives to use instead.</p>
<div class="section" id="deprecated-features">
<h2>Deprecated features<a class="headerlink" href="#deprecated-features" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Below are features which are considered deprecated. Where appropriate,
a <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">DeprecationWarning</span></code> is issued.</p>
<div class="section" id="setting-the-size-of-tiff-images">
<h3>Setting the size of TIFF images<a class="headerlink" href="#setting-the-size-of-tiff-images" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<div class="deprecated">
<p><span class="versionmodified">Deprecated since version 5.3.0.</span></p>
</div>
<p>Setting the image size of a TIFF image (eg. <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">im.size</span> <span class="pre">=</span> <span class="pre">(256,</span> <span class="pre">256)</span></code>) issues
a <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">DeprecationWarning</span></code>:</p>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>Setting the size of a TIFF image directly is deprecated, and will
be removed in a future version. Use the resize method instead.
</pre></div>
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<div class="section" id="pillow-version-and-version-constants">
<h3>PILLOW_VERSION and VERSION constants<a class="headerlink" href="#pillow-version-and-version-constants" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<div class="deprecated">
<p><span class="versionmodified">Deprecated since version 5.2.0.</span></p>
</div>
<p>Two version constants – <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">VERSION</span></code> (the old PIL version, always 1.1.7) and
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">PILLOW_VERSION</span></code> – have been deprecated and will be removed in the next
major release. Use <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">__version__</span></code> instead.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="undocumented-imageops-functions">
<h3>Undocumented ImageOps functions<a class="headerlink" href="#undocumented-imageops-functions" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<div class="deprecated">
<p><span class="versionmodified">Deprecated since version 4.3.0.</span></p>
</div>
<p>Several undocumented functions in <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ImageOps</span></code> have been deprecated. They issue
a <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">DeprecationWarning</span></code> informing which equivalent to use from <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ImageFilter</span></code>
instead:</p>
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<tr class="row-odd"><th class="head">Deprecated</th>
<th class="head">Use instead</th>
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<tr class="row-even"><td><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ImageOps.box_blur</span></code></td>
<td><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ImageFilter.BoxBlur</span></code></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ImageOps.gaussian_blur</span></code></td>
<td><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ImageFilter.GaussianBlur</span></code></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ImageOps.gblur</span></code></td>
<td><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ImageFilter.GaussianBlur</span></code></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ImageOps.usm</span></code></td>
<td><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ImageFilter.UnsharpMask</span></code></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ImageOps.unsharp_mask</span></code></td>
<td><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ImageFilter.UnsharpMask</span></code></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
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<div class="section" id="pil-olefileio">
<h3>PIL.OleFileIO<a class="headerlink" href="#pil-olefileio" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<div class="deprecated">
<p><span class="versionmodified">Deprecated since version 4.0.0.</span></p>
</div>
<p>The vendored version of olefile has been removed. Attempting to import
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">PIL.OleFileIO</span></code> issues a <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">DeprecationWarning</span></code> (from 4.0.0) or raises
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ImportError</span></code> (from 5.0.0):</p>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>PIL.OleFileIO is deprecated. Use the olefile Python package
instead. This module will be removed in a future version.
</pre></div>
</div>
</div>
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<div class="section" id="removed-features">
<h2>Removed features<a class="headerlink" href="#removed-features" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Deprecated features are only removed in major releases after an appropriate
period of deprecation has passed.</p>
<div class="section" id="vendored-olefile">
<h3>Vendored olefile<a class="headerlink" href="#vendored-olefile" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p><em>Removed in version 4.0.0.</em></p>
<p>The vendored version of the olefile Python package was removed in favour of the
upstream package. Install if needed (eg. <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pip</span> <span class="pre">install</span> <span class="pre">olefile</span></code>).</p>
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