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Santosh
Santosh

Reputation: 1815

Failed to import PIL

New in python and getting few errors while importing image packages. I need to use Pillow package in python. Following packages are already installed in machine: enter image description here

and

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Following is folder structure of C:\Python27\Lib:

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still getting error(PIL Package not found) while using following statement:

from PIL import Image

Same error with following:

import Image

already tried:

and rest.

I also observed, when open command line enter python and then place below command, its not giving error. I dont know what does it mean by: enter image description here Thanks for reading !

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1281

Answers (1)

RightmireM
RightmireM

Reputation: 2492

Python2.x and Python3.x use separate site-packages.

See also what is site-packages

On Linux...

$ python -m site
sys.path = [
    '/home/<username>',
    '/usr/lib/python2.7',
    '/usr/lib/python2.7/plat-x86_64-linux-gnu',
    '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-tk',
    '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-old',
    '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload',
    '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages',
    '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages',
    '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtk-2.0',
]
USER_BASE: '/home/<username>/.local' (exists)
USER_SITE: '/home/<username>/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages' (doesn't exist)
ENABLE_USER_SITE: True


$ python3 -m site
sys.path = [
    '/home/<username>',
    '/usr/lib/python36.zip',
    '/usr/lib/python3.6',
    '/usr/lib/python3.6/lib-dynload',
    '/home/<username>/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages',
    '/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages',
    '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages',
    '/usr/lib/python3.6/dist-packages',
]
USER_BASE: '/home/<username>/.local' (exists)
USER_SITE: '/home/<username>/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages' (exists)
ENABLE_USER_SITE: True

On Windows, the paths are usually something like...

'C:\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages'
'C:\\Python36\\lib\\site-packages'

If you want to use PIL in both versions (2.7.16 and 3.7.4) you need to install the Pillow package into each. I.e.

pip install Pillow
pip3 install Pillow

Upvotes: 3

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