No Module named PIL

Question

I know PIL is deprecated, so I installed Pillow instead, and for backward compatibility reason, Pillow is still using PIL as its module name. Here\'s my pip freeze look

Answer 1

As per my comment since it helped you out and answered your problem:

The issue that you were seeing is that you had pip version 1.5.6, and the version of pip does dictate how packages are unzipped, which ultimately determines whether or not modules are loaded properly.

All that is needed is:

pip install --upgrade pip

Which allows pip to upgrade itself.

Use sudo if you're on Mac/Linux, otherwise you'll likely need to 'Run as Administrator' on Windows.

And voila, you can now properly import the PIL modules:

Python 2.7.12 (default, Jun 29 2016, 13:16:51)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 7.3.0 (clang-703.0.31)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import PIL
>>> from PIL import Image
>>> Image