Is it safe to install the PIL library on my laptop?

[claude....@gmail.com]

I'm getting representation / feature learning and Pylearn2 a try on a OS X laptop.

Doing the Quick-start example, I've got that error:

RuntimeError: You are trying to use PIL-dependent functionality but don't have PIL installed.

Then, I've installed PIL using sudo pip install pil

Then I've got the message:

« Some insecure and unverifiable files were ignored (use --allow-unverified pil to allow). »

Finally it was working using

sudo pip install pil --allow-external pil --allow-unverified pil

Then I succeed to get the cute color image but I uninstall the PIL library afraid of my previous install.

Was it safe to install the PIL library on my laptop?

Thanks

[Eder Santana]

For images, I usually use Pillow (Pillow is the ‘friendly’ PIL https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow)

with pip install pillow

I never got any problem like the one you mentioned.

Regarding the safety of PIL and what are those unverified files, you will probably get better answers at their mailing list:

Which is mentioned in this site -> http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/

[Claude Coulombe]

@Eder Santana

Pillow is working perfectly without any warning about unverified files.

You're right! Pillow is the friendly PIL

Thanks a lot!