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Reputation: 41

'ImportError: No module named pillow' in PyCharm

I'm getting an error while using PyCharm which doesn't allow me to import the pillow module even though I have it installed as a package in the project interpreter. Any help is greatly appreciated!

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Upvotes: 2

Views: 5172

Answers (4)

Adolije Emmanuel
Adolije Emmanuel

Reputation: 1

After running this command on your terminal 

pip install pillow

and you are sure it was installed, but still having same problem of PIL module not found.

Go to your IDE and make sure existing interpreter is set to python interpreter and not anaconda

Upvotes: 0

DylanR
DylanR

Reputation: 35

For anybody still having trouble with this, I did the following which solved my problem.

  1. Open up your Project Interpreter (⌘ + , on Mac).

  2. At the bottom of this page you'll see the + symbol to the left of the anaconda logo. This will create a pop-up that allows you to search for available packages.

  3. In this new window, search for 'Pillow'.

  4. Click and Install Package.

You should now be able to use "from PIL import Image" or "import Pillow as pil" etc.

Upvotes: 0

Tomasz Jakub Rup
Tomasz Jakub Rup

Reputation: 10680

You try to run code with default Python interpreter (/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.2/bin/python3). You need to configure PyCharm to run Your code with anaconda (~/anaconda/bin/python)

And now (Like @JamesK say) read Pillow tutorial and documentation:

import PIL not import Pillow

Upvotes: 0

James K
James K

Reputation: 3752

While the name of the package is pillow, it is a replacement for PIL and uses the PIL for the name of the base module

the usual way to use pillow is

from PIL import Image
im = Image.open("filename")

See the tutorial, and the documentation

Upvotes: 2

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