ImportError No module named PIL

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I use this command in the shell to install PIL   easy install PIL   then I run python and type this  import PIL  But I get this error   Traceback  most recent call last     File   lt console gt    line 1  in  lt module gt  ImportError  No module named PIL   I ve never had such problem  what do you think

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Sometimes I get this type of error running a Unitest in python. The solution is to uninstall and install the same package on your virtual environment.

Using this commands:

pip uninstall PIL

and

pip install  PIL

If for any reason you get an error, add sudo at the beginning of the command and after hitting enter type your password.

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On  Windows  you need to download it and install the  exe  https   pypi python org pypi Pillow 2 7 0

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I had the same issue while importing PIL and further importing the ImageTk and Image modules  I also tried installing PIL directly through pip  but not success could be achieved  As in between it has been suggested that PIL has been deprectaed  thus  tried to install pillow through pip only  pillow was successfully installed  further  the PIL package was made under the path   python27 Lib site-packages     Now both Image and ImageTk could be imported

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In shell  run   pip install Pillow   Attention  PIL is deprecated  and pillow is the successor

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This worked for me on Ubuntu 16 04   sudo apt-get install python-imaging   I found this on Wikibooks after searching for about half an hour

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You will need to install Image and pillow with your python package   Rest assured  the command line will take care of everything for you    Hit   python -m pip install image

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I used   from pil import Image  instead of from PIL import Image  and it worked for me fine wish you bests

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you have to install Image and pillow with your python package   type   python -m pip install image    or run command prompt  in windows   then navigate to the scripts folder  cd C  Python27 Scripts   then run below command  pip install image

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instead of PIL use Pillow it works  easy install Pillow   or  pip install Pillow

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use pil instead of PIL from pil import Image

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if you use anaconda   conda install pillow

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I had the same issue and tried many of the solutions listed above  I then remembered that I have multiple versions of Python installed AND I use the PyCharm IDE  which is where I was getting this error message   so the solution in my case was  In PyCharm  go to File gt Settings gt Project gt Python Interpreter click  quot   quot   install  locate Pillow from the list and install it Hope this helps anyone who may be in a similar situation

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I used conda-forge to install pillow version 5  and that seemed to work for me    conda install --channel conda-forge pillow 5   the normal conda install pillow did NOT work for me

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On some installs of PIL  you must do import Image  instead of import PIL  PIL is in fact not always imported this way    Since import Image works for you  this means that you have in fact installed PIL  Having a different name for the library and the Python module is unusual  but this is what was chosen for  some versions of  PIL  You can get more information about how to use this module from the official tutorial  PS  In fact  on some installs  import PIL does work  which adds to the confusion  This is confirmed by an example from the documentation  as  JanneKarila found out  and also by some more recent versions of the MacPorts PIL package  1 1 7

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Python 3 8 on Windows 10    A combination of the answers worked for me  See below for a standalone working example  The commented out lines should be executed in the command line  import requests import matplotlib pyplot as plt   pip uninstall pillow   pip uninstall PIL   pip install image from PIL import Image url    quot https   images homedepot-static com productImages 007164ea-d47e-4f66-8d8c-fd9f621984a2 svn architectural-mailboxes-house-letters-numbers-3585b-5-64 1000 jpg quot  response   requests get url  stream True  img   Image open response raw  plt imshow img  plt show

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At first install Pillow with   pip install Pillow   or as follows  c  Python35 gt python -m pip install Pillow   Then in python code you may call  from PIL import Image    Pillow is a fork of PIL  the Python Imaging Library  which is no longer maintained  However  to maintain backwards compatibility  the old module name is used   From pillow installed  but  quot no module named pillow quot  - python2 7 - Windows 7 - python -m install pillow

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On a different note  I can highly recommend the use of Pillow which is backwards compatible with PIL and is better maintained will work on newer systems   When that is installed you can do   import PIL    or  from PIL import Image   etc

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I had the same problem and i fixed it by checking what version pip  pip3 --version  is  then realizing I m typing python lt uncorrect version gt  filename py instead of python lt correct version gt  filename py

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On windows  try checking the path to the location of the PIL library   On my system  I noticed the path was    Python26 Lib site-packages pil instead of  Python26 Lib site-packages PIL     after  renaming the pil folder to PIL  I was able to load the PIL module

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You are probably missing the python headers to build pil  If you re using ubuntu or the likes it ll be something like   apt-get install python-dev

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On windows 10 I managed to get there with   cd  C  Users  lt your username gt  AppData Local Programs Python Python37-32   python -m pip install --upgrade pip      lt -- upgrading from 10 something to 19 2 2  pip3 uninstall pillow pip3 uninstall PIL pip3 install image   after which in python  python 3 7 in my case  this works fine     import PIL from PIL import image

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pip 3  uninstall Pillow pip 3  uninstall PIL pip 3  install Pillow

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I used   pip install Pillow    and pip installed PIL in Lib site-packages  When I moved PIL to Lib everything worked fine  I m on Windows 10

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I recently installed Leap  I Tried openshot and it didn t start  So came here and found a suggestion to start from the Terminal to see if there were any error    The error I had was error missing mlt  So I installed the python-mlt module from Yast and imported it  tried to start but next openshot said missing pil   I Followed the Pillow suggestion to install because Yast couldn t find any pil and imported pil  That went ok but did not start and showed Error missing goocanvas    The I installed goocanvas with Yast  imported it in python  and Openshot fired up     With a lot of errors in the terminal like missing Vimeoclient and lots of attributeerrors  Well  will see if it is of any influence working with it

[python] ImportError: No module named PIL

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