Why can t Python import Image from PIL

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The single line that I am trying to run is the following   from PIL import Image   However simple this may seem  it gives an error   Traceback  most recent call last     File  C      2014-10-22 12-49 py   line 1  in  lt module gt      from PIL import Image   File  C  pyzo2014a lib site-packages PIL Image py   line 29  in  lt module gt      from PIL import VERSION  PILLOW VERSION   plugins ImportError  cannot import name  VERSION    In case that s helpful  I installed pillow from https   pypi python org pypi Pillow 2 6 1  file Pillow-2 6 1 win-amd64-py3 4 exe  before running this  before that there was already som PIL install  which I uninstalled   The script is run in Pyzo with Python version 3 4 1   What is going wrong  how can I import Image

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All the answers were great however what did it for me was a combination of uninstalling Pillow

pip uninstall Pillow

Then installing whatever packages you need e.g.

sudo apt-get -y install python-imaging
sudo apt-get -y install zlib1g-dev
sudo apt-get -y install libjpeg-dev

And then using easy_install to reinstall Pillow

easy_install Pillow

Hope this helps others

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In Ubuntu OS  I solved it with the followings commands  pip install Pillow apt-get install python-imaging   And sorry  dont ask me why  it s up to me  -

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I had the same error  Here was my workflow  I first installed PIL  not Pillow  using   pip install --no-index -f https   dist plone org thirdparty  -U PIL   Then I found Pillow and installed it using  pip install Pillow   What fixed my issues was uninstalling both and reinstalling Pillow  pip uninstall PIL pip uninstall Pillow pip install Pillow

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If you did all and it didn t work again like mien  do this copy Image py and ImageTk py from  usr lib python3 dist-packages PIL on ubuntu and C  Users yourComputerName AppData Local Programs Python Python36 Lib PIL on windows to your projects directory and just import them

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If you use Anaconda  you may try   conda install Pillow   Example

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had the same error while using pytorch code which had deprecated pillow code  since PILLOW VERSION was deprecated  i worked around it by   Simply duplicating the  version file and renaming it as PILLOW VERSION py in the same folder   worked for me

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The current free version is PIL 1 1 7  This release supports Python 1 5 2 and newer  including 2 5 and 2 6  A version for 3 X will be released later    Python Imaging Library  PIL   Your python version is 3 4 1  PIL do not support

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Any library package you import must have its dependencies and subordinate parts in the same python directory  in linux if you  Python3 x -m pip install  lt your library name without braces gt   what happens is  it  installs on the default python  so first make sure that only 1 python 2 x and 1 python 3 x versions are on your pc   If you want to successfully install matplotlib you need these lines   python -m pip install matplotlib pillow numpy pandas   the last 2 were auxiliary libs  and must have

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Install Pillow from Command Line  python -m pip install pillow

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do from PIL import Image  ImageTk

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FWIW  the following worked for me when I had this same error   pip install --upgrade --force-reinstall pillow

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For me  I had typed image with a lower case  i  instead of Image  So I  did   from PIL import Image NOT from PIL import image

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I had the same problem  pillow was installed with an environment yml in anaconda  I am quickly learning that pip and setuptools must always be up to date or I will have problems  Always update these tools before installing packages For any package import problem uninstall the package upgrade the listed tools maybe even your base environment  and reinstall   conda uninstall pillow python -m pip install pip --upgrade pip install setuptools --upgrade pip install pillow   If using Anaconda  from the base environment first run the following before installing packages environments   conda update conda   Updating the base env is not required to fix this issue but is a good practice to avoid similar problems   theeastcoastwest touched on the pip upgrade in their answer but I felt more information was needed

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what that worked for me   go to the fodler   C  Users  YOUR PC USER NAME  AppData Local Programs Python Python37-32 Lib site-packages    and either delete or change the name of the PIL folder and DONE   had to do it after running  pip uninstall PIL   as other suggested yielded for me   WARNING  Skipping PIL as it is not installed    But I am not sure about the consequences of removing that library so I will edit this post if I ever get into a problem because of that

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Try import PIL instead of from PIL import image

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I had the same issue  and did this to fix it     In command prompt  pip install Pillow     Ensure that you use   from PIL import Image    I in Image has to be capital  That was the issue in my case

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Now  I actually did some debugging with my brother and found that Pillow  PIL  needed to be initialized  I don t know how to initialize it  so you could probably stick with reinstalling Pillow

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