Why doesn't PIL load locally while running Google App Engine Python 2.7 Mac OSX?

Question

I am using Google App engine on Mac OSX 10.7.4. When I load PIL from the commandline, everything works fine. However, when I load it from the GAE local environment, i.e.:

import Image

Gives me the error:

ImportError: No module named Image

This line works fine:

from google.appengine.api import images

So I don't believe there's a problem with my installation. The app works fine when I deploy it to GAE. Also, I load the PIL library in app.yaml:

libraries:
- name: webapp2
  version: "2.5.1"
- name: lxml
  version: latest
- name: PIL
  version: latest
- name: numpy
  version: latest

I am also using python in /usr/bin/python, 2.7.1. I have PIL installed using:

brew install pip
pip install pil

Answer 1

You need to use: from PIL import Image.