Why can't Python import Image from PIL?

Question

The single line that I am trying to run is the following:

from PIL import Image

However simple this may seem, it gives an error:

Answer 1

Any library/package you import must have its dependencies and subordinate parts in the same python directory. in linux if you

Python3.x -m pip install <your_library_name_without_braces>

what happens is, it installs on the default python. so first make sure that only 1 python 2.x and 1 python 3.x versions are on your pc.

If you want to successfully install matplotlib you need these lines,

python -m pip install matplotlib pillow numpy pandas

the last 2 were auxiliary libs, and must have.

Answer 2

For me, I had typed image with a lower case "i" instead of Image. So I did:

from PIL import Image NOT from PIL import image

Answer 3

Install Pillow from Command Line:

python -m pip install pillow

Answer 4

If you did all and it didn't work again like mien, do this copy Image.py and ImageTk.py from /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/PIL on ubuntu and C:/Users/yourComputerName/AppData/Local/Programs/Python/Python36/Lib/PIL on windows to your projects directory and just import them!

Answer 5

If you use Anaconda, you may try:

conda install Pillow

Example

Answer 6

what that worked for me:

go to the fodler

C:\Users\{YOUR PC USER NAME}\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\Lib\site-packages 

and either delete or change the name of the PIL folder and DONE.

had to do it after running

pip uninstall PIL

as other suggested yielded for me

WARNING: Skipping PIL as it is not installed.

But I am not sure about the consequences of removing that library so I will edit this post if I ever get into a problem because of that.