Install PIL/Pillow for ubuntu python 2.7

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I have successfully installed PIL/Pillow for python 3.4 but I want it for python 2.7. I thought it might be automatically downloaded for 2.7 as well but when I tried the python shell from the terminal, it keeps saying No module named PIL and No module named PILLOW. What can I do? When I try all the installation commands as given in other answers, it says:

Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): pillow in ./.local/lib/python3.4/site-packages

My problem is the opposite of this

How did you install it? I see two packages: `python-pil` and `python3-pil` in ubuntu repositories. Have you tried installing the former? — Anonymous, Jun 13 '16 at 11:51

Belwase · Answer 1 · 2016-06-13T12:04:31.820

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Install PIL using pip install pillow

Then in the shell try import PIL or from PIL import ...

edited Jun 13 '16 at 12:04

answered Jun 13 '16 at 11:52

Belwase

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ImportError: No module named PIL – Sibi Jun 13 '16 at 11:53
how did you installed PIL ? Did you tried ? `pip install pillow` – Belwase Jun 13 '16 at 11:56

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 13 '16 at 12:01

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In python 2.7 there is no module named PIL, you can use PIL features through Pillow,so PIL aka Pillow
Your output shows you are still using python3
Switch to python 2.7 and try pip install pillow
Then you can directly import PIL and use its methods completely

answered Jun 13 '16 at 12:01

Venkat Ramana

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How can I switch to python 2.7? – Sibi Jun 13 '16 at 12:10
You have to change the python path which is already pointing to python 3.4 change that path to python 2.7 installed directory.then run python in CLI this will automatically runs python 2.7(or)you can directly goto to python 2.7 package installed directory and run python.exe which start python 2.7 program – Venkat Ramana Jun 13 '16 at 12:18
then what's the problem? you can edit PATH environment variable – Venkat Ramana Jun 13 '16 at 13:52
How can I do this? Sorry, I'm a beginner and don't know what an environment variable is and how I can edit it – Sibi Jun 13 '16 at 14:15
PATH=$PATH: – Venkat Ramana Jun 13 '16 at 15:21

Install PIL/Pillow for ubuntu python 2.7

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