python wand.image is not recognized

Question

I installed Imagemagic (both 32 and 64 bits versions were tried) and then used pip to install wand, I also set the Magick_Home env. variable to imagemagic address but when I

Answer 1

For me on my Mac I had to (found Wand looks for MAGICK_HOME in Wand source):

export MAGICK_HOME="/usr/local/Cellar/imagemagick@6/6.9.9-31"

That was after installing version 6 of imagemagick. I took a look at the Python source for Wand that was installed after I ran pip3 install Wand. The scripts were looking for imagemagick 6 (I attempted to add 7 into the list of versions it looks for, but got a "wrong version" error).

brew tap homebrew/versions
brew install imagemagick@6

Now, imagemagick version 6 is installed and Wand looks in $MAGICK_HOME for the libraries.