Install pillow OSX Mavericks

Question

I am trying to install Pillow on mavericks with no luck.

I have tried:

pip install Pillow

The install works great.

However I get the error:

ImportError: No module named PIL

On this line of code in my script:

from PIL import Image, ImageFont, ImageDraw

I have no idea whats wrong. Ideas?

Do you have more than one version of Python installed? Likely what is happening is you are installing `Pillow` with one version (say, the system Python) and trying to import it with another version (from python.org, Homebrew, etc.). — MattDMo, Aug 12 '14 at 02:02

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 12 '14 at 02:09

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@MattDMo was right.

I had done brew install python to install python with homebrew leaving with system python and homebrew python.

I removed that brew and did an easy_install pip, then pip install Pillow.

Everything is working great now

answered Aug 12 '14 at 02:09

lostintranslation

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 12 '14 at 01:56

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Just try:

import Image

In some installs, Import PILworks, in some others import Imageis the one that works.

It is quite confusing.

answered Aug 12 '14 at 01:56

Mikel Pascual

This is not true. `import PIL` and/or `from PIL import ...` work just fine with Pillow on Linux, OS X, and Windows. – MattDMo Aug 12 '14 at 02:03

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