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Sebastian Stoelen
Sebastian Stoelen

Reputation: 107

PIL working in Terminal, but not via IDLE

I'm trying to use Pillow. I've followed the installation instructions on this site: http://www.pythonforbeginners.com/gui/how-to-use-pillow

When I type the following into my terminal window:

$ python
Python 2.7.5 (default, Mar  9 2014, 22:15:05) 
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 5.0 (clang-500.0.68)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from PIL import Image
>>>

It doesn't give me any errors, so assuming the linked site is correct, this means that Pillow is correctly installed. However, when I try to use the PIL library from the Python IDLE, like this:

from PIL import Image

Python gives an error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Sample_application.py",
line 3, in <module>
from PIL import Image
ImportError: No module named 'PIL'

What am I doing wrong? I'm using mac OSX 10.9, Mavericks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3341

Answers (1)

Martijn Pieters
Martijn Pieters

Reputation: 1123400

You have at least two Python installations on your system; the default system-provided 2.7 and Python 3.4.

Your pip command is tied to Python 2.7; you could run the version of IDLE with that version with:

/usr/bin/idle

Or you can install Pillow into Python 3.4 with:

python3.4 -m pip install Pillow

Upvotes: 2

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