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Wand

The ctypes-based simple ImageMagick binding for Python

From emcconville·Updated June 13, 2026·View on GitHub·

.. image:: https://docs.wand-py.org/en/latest/_static/wand.png :width: 120 :height: 120 The project is written primarily in Python, distributed under the Other license, first published in 2011. It has gained significant community traction with 1,482 stars and 199 forks on GitHub. Key topics include: ctypes, imagemagick, python, wand.

Latest release: 0.7.1Wand 0.7.1
May 20, 2026View Changelog →

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Wand_

Wand is a ctypes-based simple ImageMagick_ binding for Python,
supporting 3.8+ and PyPy. All functionalities of MagickWand API are
implemented in Wand.

You can install the package from PyPI_ by using pip:

.. code-block:: console

$ pip install Wand

Or would you like to enjoy the bleeding edge? Check out the head
revision of the source code from the GitHub repository__:

.. code-block:: console

$ git clone git://github.com/emcconville/wand.git
$ cd wand/
$ python setup.py install

.. _Wand: http://wand-py.org/
.. _ImageMagick: https://www.imagemagick.org/
.. _PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/Wand/
__ https://github.com/emcconville/wand

Docs

Recent version
https://docs.wand-py.org/

Development version
https://docs.wand-py.org/en/latest/

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Community

Website
http://wand-py.org/

GitHub
https://github.com/emcconville/wand

Package Index (Cheeseshop)
https://pypi.org/project/Wand/

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Discord
https://discord.gg/wtDWDE9fXK

Stack Overflow tag (Q&A)
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/wand

Continuous Integration (GitHub Actions)
https://github.com/emcconville/wand/actions

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Code Coverage
https://coveralls.io/r/emcconville/wand

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Contributors

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