I am trying to install PIL module But I end up with an error

Question

$ pip install PIL
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement PIL (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for PIL

Can Anyone suggest me any other way to install it.

Thanking You...!!!

Comments

Hey, @Nishant,

Try installing the package named Pillow, it's a PIL Fork. You can use it the same as the PIL package.

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Hi Gitika,

I have already installed the pillow package, but my program is still showing me the error for PIL module.

I am trying to run a program which is using MyQR package and it is showing me the following error :

$ C:/Python/Python38/python.exe d:/MCA/MyProject/Project/generate.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "d:/MCA/MyProject/Project/generate.py", line 1, in <module>
    from MyQR import myqr
  File "C:\Python\Python38\lib\site-packages\MyQR\myqr.py", line 5, in <module>
    from MyQR.mylibs import theqrmodule
  File "C:\Python\Python38\lib\site-packages\MyQR\mylibs\theqrmodule.py", line 3, in <module>
    from MyQR.mylibs import data, ECC, structure, matrix, draw
  File "C:\Python\Python38\lib\site-packages\MyQR\mylibs\draw.py", line 3, in <module>
    from PIL import Image
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'PIL'

Please help me in this

Thanking You...!!!

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GEtting error while installing Pillow also

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Hi, @Sush,

Could you please post the error statement you are facing?

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Hey Geethika, Even I am facing the same problem. Is ur problem solved?

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Hi. @Shravani,

Are you facing a problem installing Pillow or the error which is given above? And what is the exact error you are getting? Please post your workaround.

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Facing same issue plz help me

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I have already installed the pillow package, but my program is still showing me the error for importing  PIL module.

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Hello,

Have you try the solution @MD(given below)? In case if that didn't work read this.
and setup the interpreter for the project to be python3.8 with Pillow installed

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Hi, @There,

On some installs of PIL, You must do

import Image

instead of import PIL (PIL is in fact not always imported this way). Since import Image works for you, this means that you have in fact installed PIL.

Answer 1

Hi@Nishant,

You can use PILLOW instead of PIL.

$ pip3 install PILLOW
Collecting PILLOW
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/ba/90/8a24e6220cfcf6a3a0162535d5b926e774117e384ff921908e07e4c92bda/Pillow-7.1.1-cp36-cp36m-manylinux1_x86_64.whl (2.1MB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 2.1MB 281kB/s
Installing collected packages: PILLOW
Successfully installed PILLOW-7.1.1

[root@vm1 ~]# python3
Python 3.6.6 (default, Mar 29 2019, 00:03:27)
[GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-36)] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import PIL
>>>

Now it works fine. Try this once.

Comments

Thank you so much for the help.

Now It's working properly.