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John Slathon
John Slathon

Reputation: 363

PIL Module Error

I get the following error running the simple python script below:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/user/Desktop/python/folder/pil_test.py", line 4, in <module>
    im = Image.open('screenshot.png')
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'open'

I run Debian Wheezy with KDE. I have installed pillow via pip.

The script ran well on my previous system, so I suspect the issue lies outside of my source code.

I feel slit up and have no idea where to start to solve that issue. Just reinstalling pillow did not do the job for me.

What else could I do?

from PIL import Image


im = Image.open('screenshot.png')
left = '10'
top = '10'
right = '10'
bottom = '10'


im = im.crop((left, top, right, bottom))  # defines crop points
im.save('screenshot.png')

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1708

Answers (1)

John Slathon
John Slathon

Reputation: 363

It appears uninstalling 'pillow' and install 'pil' did the job for me:

sudo pip uninstall pillow
sudo pip install pil

This is strange in so far as I thought installing pillow via pip must have included PIL automatically.

I do not know why. But it works now!

Upvotes: 1

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