From 3369e3bc24f98f430593a5d15d8e6d6deb14356e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas A Caswell <tcaswell@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2020 20:24:07 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] FIX: use supported attribute to check pillow version

the PILLOW_VERSION attribute was deprecated in pillow 5.2 and removed
in pillow 7.0.  The __version__ attribute is present in the minimum
version we check (3.4).

closes #16083
---
 lib/matplotlib/backend_bases.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/backend_bases.py b/lib/matplotlib/backend_bases.py
index 5f73911670d..650446cbdb2 100644
--- a/lib/matplotlib/backend_bases.py
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/backend_bases.py
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
 from matplotlib.path import Path
 
 try:
-    from PIL import PILLOW_VERSION
+    from PIL import __version__ as PILLOW_VERSION
     from distutils.version import LooseVersion
     if LooseVersion(PILLOW_VERSION) >= "3.4":
         _has_pil = True