From dcbe402f77b9a6cbdc09645912404a716e597df9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Murray <radarhere@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 2024 20:16:41 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] Changed SupportsGetMesh protocol to be public

---
 docs/reference/ImageOps.rst |  2 ++
 src/PIL/ImageOps.py         | 12 ++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/reference/ImageOps.rst b/docs/reference/ImageOps.rst
index 47525307873..051fdcfc987 100644
--- a/docs/reference/ImageOps.rst
+++ b/docs/reference/ImageOps.rst
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ only work on L and RGB images.
 .. autofunction:: colorize
 .. autofunction:: crop
 .. autofunction:: scale
+.. autoclass:: SupportsGetMesh
+    :show-inheritance:
 .. autofunction:: deform
 .. autofunction:: equalize
 .. autofunction:: expand
diff --git a/src/PIL/ImageOps.py b/src/PIL/ImageOps.py
index 6218c723f85..33db8fa50c7 100644
--- a/src/PIL/ImageOps.py
+++ b/src/PIL/ImageOps.py
@@ -411,7 +411,15 @@ def scale(
         return image.resize(size, resample)
 
 
-class _SupportsGetMesh(Protocol):
+class SupportsGetMesh(Protocol):
+    """
+    An object that supports the ``getmesh`` method, taking an image as an
+    argument, and returning a list of tuples. Each tuple contains two tuples,
+    the source box as a tuple of 4 integers, and a tuple of 8 integers for the
+    final quadrilateral, in order of top left, bottom left, bottom right, top
+    right.
+    """
+
     def getmesh(
         self, image: Image.Image
     ) -> list[
@@ -421,7 +429,7 @@ def getmesh(
 
 def deform(
     image: Image.Image,
-    deformer: _SupportsGetMesh,
+    deformer: SupportsGetMesh,
     resample: int = Image.Resampling.BILINEAR,
 ) -> Image.Image:
     """