Pillow installed, but getting "no module named pillow" when importing

Question

I installed the Pillow package with:

python -m pip install pillow

Got success message (Successfully installed pillow). Closed and re-opened the terminal.

But when I try to:

import pillow

I get the error message:

ImportError: No module named pillow

If python -m pip install pillow is run again, it says

Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): pillow in c:\python27\lib\site-packages

score 61 · Accepted Answer · answered May 23 '14 at 16:55

61

Try using

import PIL

or

from PIL import ...

instead. Pillow is a fork of PIL, the Python Imaging Library, which is no longer maintained. However, to maintain backwards compatibility, the old module name is used.

answered May 23 '14 at 16:55

MattDMo

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no module named PIL – user7082181 Mar 18 '22 at 10:21
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@user7082181 did you successfully run `pip install pillow` and are you using the same interpreter used to install it? – MattDMo Mar 19 '22 at 10:30

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