jekillow 11.0.1

Jekillow — joke clone of Pillow where every image becomes the Жэ.

Jekillow

Pillow, but with one l — and every image you touch becomes the same selfie.

jekillow is a joke clone of Pillow. It exposes the same module structure (Image, ImageDraw, ImageFilter, ImageOps, ImageEnhance, ImageChops, ImageColor, ImageFont, ImageStat, ImageQt, ImageTk, ImageWin, ImageCms, ImageGrab, ImageMath, ImageMorph, ImagePalette, ImagePath, ImageShow, ImageSequence, ImageTransform, ExifTags, TiffTags, features) and the same set of functions and methods. They all do exactly one thing: turn the image they touch into the photo bundled with the package.

import jekillow                # this also hijacks the name `PIL`
from PIL import Image, ImageFilter, ImageOps   # joke version

img = Image.open("kitten.png")          # not a kitten anymore
img = img.rotate(90)                    # still the photo
img = img.filter(ImageFilter.GaussianBlur(8))   # still the photo
img = ImageOps.grayscale(img)           # still the photo
img.save("output.jpg")                  # writes the photo

Install

pip install -e .

Importing as PIL

If real Pillow is also installed in your environment (other libraries often require it), import jekillow first — that forcibly registers itself under the PIL name in sys.modules. After that, from PIL import Image gives the joke version for the rest of the process.

import jekillow
from PIL import Image, ImageDraw   # joke version, even with real Pillow installed

If real Pillow is not installed, import PIL works directly because we ship a PIL package alongside jekillow.

What it actually does

• Module-level constructors (Image.open, Image.new, Image.frombytes, ...) always return an Image whose pixels are the bundled photo.
• Every Image method (rotate, resize, filter, convert, crop, paste, ...) returns a fresh Image of the same photo. Mutating methods like paste are no-ops.
• Image.save(path) writes the bundled photo's bytes to path regardless of the format you ask for.
• Image.show() opens the photo in the system viewer.
• Pixel access (getpixel, load()[x, y], etc.) returns plausible values.
• ImageDraw.Draw(img).rectangle(...), .text(...), .line(...) — all no-ops. Drawing on the photo doesn't change it.
• ImageColor.getrgb("red"), EXIF tag tables, etc. work for real because they don't depend on pixel data.

It is a joke. Don't ship it to production.