Install PIL in Ubuntu 12.04 Python 2.7 and Python 3.2

Question

I am, using Ubuntu 12.04 server which by default has two versions of Python: 2.7 and 3.2. When I install PIL using the python setup.py install terminal command,

Answer 1

for those here to get scipy working with PIL (Pillow), on python3

After executing the receipe Chin Ye above, I was then able to get scipy.misc.imread and scipy.misc.imsave to be available when issuing import scipy.misc by tweaking two lines in the file:

/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/scipy/misc/pilutil.py

in that file, replace the lines:

import Image
import ImageFilter

to be:

from PIL import Image
from PIL import ImageFilter

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the imports in scipy.misc.__init__ then worked to allow the contents of pilutil.py to work (esp image io - from numpy array formats)

this was for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, scipy.__version__ 0.9.0

(for more information on the tweak itself, see the docs for the Pillow implementaion of PIL)