Python, PIL and JPEG on Heroku

Question

I have a Django site, hosted on Heroku. One of the models has an image field, that takes uploaded images, resizes them, and pushes them to Ama

Answer 1

I use this PIL fork in requirements.txt:

-e hg+https://bitbucket.org/etienned/pil-2009-raclette/#egg=PIL

and can use JPEG without issues:

       --------------------------------------------------------------------
       PIL 1.2a0 SETUP SUMMARY
       --------------------------------------------------------------------
       version       1.2a0
       platform      Python 2.7.2 (default, Oct 31 2011, 16:22:04)
                     [GCC 4.4.3] on linux2
       --------------------------------------------------------------------
       *** TKINTER support not available
       --- JPEG support available
       *** WEBP support not available
       --- ZLIB (PNG/ZIP) support available
       --- FREETYPE2 support available
       --- LITTLECMS support available
       --------------------------------------------------------------------

Answer 2

Also please consider using Pillow, the "friendly" PIL fork which offers:

• Setuptools compatibility
• Python 3 compatibility
• Frequent release cycle
• Many bug fixes