Coolgamerguy4793 commented 4 years ago

What did you do?

Tried to run: from PIL import Image

What did you expect to happen?

To get access to the Image package contained in PIL

What actually happened?

I got the error:

ImportError: cannot import name '_imaging' from 'PIL'

What are your OS, Python and Pillow versions?

OS: Windows 10
Python: 3.8.1
Pillow: 7.0.0

from PIL import Image

radarhere commented 4 years ago

How did you install Pillow?

Coolgamerguy4793 commented 4 years ago

I installed it from pip

radarhere commented 4 years ago

Did you run pip install Pillow, or are you saying that you ran pip install PIL? If you ran pip install PIL, then you should know that PIL does not support Python 3, so that will not ultimately work for you.

I presume you did not try and build Pillow from source.

Could you post the output of the following code?

import PIL
print(PIL)

radarhere commented 4 years ago

Also, be aware of the documented instructions for installing Pillow using pip - https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html#windows-installation

python -m pip install --upgrade pip
python -m pip install --upgrade Pillow

radarhere commented 4 years ago

Googling, I found suggestions that you might have PIL installed alongside Pillow. Could you try uninstalling Pillow, checking that you can no longer import PIL, and then re-installing Pillow?

I presume that you haven't created a script named PIL.py that could be interfering.

HTGAzureX1212 commented 4 years ago

Having the same issue here, however I am pretty sure that they aren't installed side by side, with proof here:

radarhere commented 4 years ago

@HTG-YT what operating system are you using? How did you install Pillow?

Could you post the output of the following code?

import PIL
print(PIL)

HTGAzureX1212 commented 4 years ago

My operating system is Windows 10 Home.

The output of the code is as below:

@radarhere and I got that via pip install Pillow

HTGAzureX1212 commented 4 years ago

and this is the traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\85251\PycharmProjects\HarTex discord.py\venv\lib\site-packages\discord\ext\commands\bot.py", line 596, in _load_from_module_spec
    spec.loader.exec_module(lib)
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 783, in exec_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "C:\Users\85251\PycharmProjects\HarTex discord.py\cmds\levelling_system.py", line 12, in <module>
    from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont
  File "C:\Users\85251\PycharmProjects\HarTex discord.py\venv\lib\site-packages\PIL\Image.py", line 69, in <module>
    from . import _imaging as core
ImportError: cannot import name '_imaging' from 'PIL' (C:\Users\85251\PycharmProjects\HarTex discord.py\venv\lib\site-packages\PIL\__init__.py)

HTGAzureX1212 commented 4 years ago

So with the traceback I wonder if it is a problem of the PIL package.

radarhere commented 4 years ago

4149 may be of interest to you

HTGAzureX1212 commented 4 years ago

That doesn't seem to work in the built-in terminal of PyCharm

HTGAzureX1212 commented 4 years ago

Did that miniconda3 mean I have to install external stuff to my computer?

shiba24 commented 4 years ago

I am getting the same error. I'm using virtual env - how is it resolved without miniconda?

radarhere commented 4 years ago

I don't want to suggest that you have to use miniconda, I'm just attempting to provide another situation in the hope that it will help and lead you towards a solution. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55419368/in-pycharm-importerror-dll-load-failed-the-specified-module-could-not-be-found, for example, is a person who has a similar problem to this, with Anaconda, and resolves it by adding the interpreter to PyCharm. So maybe the interpreter settings could be a solution here?

HTGAzureX1212 commented 4 years ago

Well after I updated to newer version so pip, the problem is resolved.

Linkontoask commented 4 years ago

@HTG-YT I would like to know in which environment the problem was solved. I also tried to use the built code in the project.

Python: 3.7.3
Pillow: 5.2.0 (7.1.2 have tried)

padfoot-y2m commented 4 years ago

I am using pycharm and I installed pillow from the settings,the version in 7.2.0. I am facing the same problem and after i type import PIL print(PIL) i get this: <module 'PIL' from 'C:\Users\Prottoy Mobin\PycharmProjects\python_1\venv\lib\site-packages\PIL\init.py'> I am new in programming,please help me solve this issue.

radarhere commented 4 years ago

The solution for @HTG-YT was to upgrade pip, so you might try

python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip
python3 -m pip install --upgrade Pillow

etasnadi commented 4 years ago

Same issue here: ImportError: cannot import name '_imaging' from 'PIL' (/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/PIL/__init__.py) when using scikit-image (Pillow 7.0). Upgraded to 8.0.1 and it works.

richtong commented 3 years ago

I'm getting this error on a Mac after running

brew install python@3.8
pip install Pillow

Then

from PIL import images

This fails with the line

ImportError: cannot import name '_imaging' from 'PIL' (/usr/local/lib/python@3.8/PIL/__init__.py

The Pillow version is 8.2

I also tried this with conda and with:

conda activate test-driver
conda install Pillow

But when running this I get Pi

import PIL
PIL.__version__
from PIL import Images

I get nearly the same error

>>> PIL.__version__
'8.1.0'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: cannot import name 'Images' from 'PIL' (/usr/local/Caskroom/miniconda/base/envs/test-driver/lib/python3.8/site-packages/PIL/__init__.py)

So did something change with Pillow v8.1.0?

radarhere commented 3 years ago

from PIL import images from PIL import Images

For one thing, these are incorrect. It is from PIL import Image

richtong commented 3 years ago

Yes that was problem, I just realized. I'm an idiot!!!

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ivanstepanovftw commented 3 years ago

PyPy3 enjoyer is here. Environment: Windows 10 x64 under VMWare Player. Installation was:

choco install make pypy3 
pypy3 -m ensurepip
pypy3 -m pip install pillow

Python 3.7.10 (51efa818fd9b, Apr 04 2021, 12:09:32)
[PyPy 7.3.4 with MSC v.1927 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> import PIL
>>>> print(PIL)
<module 'PIL' from 'C:\\Users\\Ivan Stepanov\\AppData\\Roaming\\PyPy\\PyPy37\\site-packages\\PIL\\__init__.py'>
>>>> from PIL import Image
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Users\Ivan Stepanov\AppData\Roaming\PyPy\PyPy37\site-packages\PIL\Image.py", line 114, in <module>
    from . import _imaging as core
ImportError: cannot import name '_imaging'

radarhere commented 3 years ago

Did you want to try

uninstalling Pillow
check that you can't import it at all, to confirm that you don't have more than one copy installed

and then

pypy3 -m pip install --upgrade pip
pypy3 -m pip install --upgrade Pillow

rabiyulfahimhasim786 commented 2 years ago

I am also facing an same issue but i solved it using these below references -

Installations of PIL on windows 10 https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/how-to-install-pil-on-windows/

Tutorials of pillow https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/handbook/tutorial.html

pip install pillow

Requirement already satisfied: pillow in c:\users\admin\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (8.4.0) Note: you may need to restart the kernel to use updated packages.

pip install PIL

Note: you may need to restart the kernel to use updated packages.

ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement PIL (from versions: none) ERROR: No matching distribution found for PIL

import PIL

print(PIL)

PIL.__version__

'8.4.0'

conda install -c anaconda Pillow

Collecting package metadata (current_repodata.json): ...working... done Solving environment: ...working... done

All requested packages already installed.

Note: you may need to restart the kernel to use updated packages.

PIL.__version__

from PIL import Image

#make sure i should be caps in Image

Im = Image.open('53220.jpg')

type(Im)

Im

#It will showing an image

Im.show()

Im.size

#It will shows the size of an image

kernc commented 2 years ago

Mere pip --upgrade no longer reinstalls.

pip install --force-reinstall pillow fixed it for me.

jason-s commented 1 year ago

pip install --force-reinstall pillow fixed it for me.

That worked here too. Somehow conda's version isn't working (I had pillow 9.4.0, same error)

vincent-bruel commented 1 year ago

+1 pip install --force-reinstall pillow worked also for my config: ubuntu 22.04LTS python 3.11.2 pip 23.0.1

python-pillow / Pillow

ImportError: cannot import name '_imaging' from 'PIL' #4416

What did you do?

What did you expect to happen?

What actually happened?

What are your OS, Python and Pillow versions?

4149 may be of interest to you

All requested packages already installed.