ImportError: No module named PIL

[jazzsequence]

OSX 10.7.2

Homebrew wasn't installed (even though Xcode was), so I installed that manually. No problem with the brew install jpeg.

sudo pip install glue gave me a sudo: pip: command not found so ran the sudo easy_install glue
That worked, but whenever I invoke glue I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/glue", line 8, in <module>
    load_entry_point('glue==0.1.9', 'console_scripts', 'glue')()
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/pkg_resources.py", line 318, in load_entry_point
    return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/pkg_resources.py", line 2221, in load_entry_point
    return ep.load()
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/pkg_resources.py", line 1954, in load
    entry = __import__(self.module_name, globals(),globals(), ['__name__'])
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/glue-0.1.9-py2.7.egg/glue.py", line 11, in <module>
    from PIL import Image as PImage
ImportError: No module named PIL

Any help?

[jorgebastida]

Try to install PIL, easy_install PIL

I'll check if there is any issue installing glue using easy_install

Thanks!

[jazzsequence]

No dice.

Searching for PIL
Best match: PIL 1.1.7
Processing PIL-1.1.7-py2.7-macosx-10.7-intel.egg
PIL 1.1.7 is already the active version in easy-install.pth
Installing pilconvert.py script to /usr/local/bin
Installing pildriver.py script to /usr/local/bin
Installing pilfile.py script to /usr/local/bin
Installing pilfont.py script to /usr/local/bin
Installing pilprint.py script to /usr/local/bin

Using /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/PIL-1.1.7-py2.7-macosx-10.7-intel.egg
Processing dependencies for PIL
Finished processing dependencies for PIL

still get the No module named PIL when I try to run glue :/

[jorgebastida]

Open a python console and type from PIL import Image if nothing happens... this is a glue bug, if not it seems that PIL isn't properly installed. Let me know what happens.

[jazzsequence]

Yep. That was it. I got PIL installed and now glue works. Woo! Thanks :) This will help me a ton.

[jazzsequence]

For future reference, I went through these steps to get PIL working: http://www.p16blog.com/p16/2008/05/appengine-installing-pil-on-os-x-1053.html

[jorgebastida]

Thank you very much @jazzsequence !

[dlowe]

This seems to be a bit more complicated than you might guess.

PIL's packaging is a bit of a mess -- see e.g. http://mail.python.org/pipermail/image-sig/2010-August/006480.html. In particular, for many folks from PIL import Image will not work; they need import Image.

Various OS distros and users have apparently responded with fixes and alternate packagings, but the official package is still a mess. My personal current workaround is to use the 'Pillow' package instead (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pillow). For 'glue', though, it might be nice to have a fallback import e.g.:

try:
    from PIL import Image
except:
    import Image

[jorgebastida]

Sounds like a good plan @dlowe

What about this #45 ? Should Glue require Pillow instead of Pil ?

thoughts?

[dlowe]

That would help your users avoid the gnarly problems that can occur installing PIL directly, yep.

[jorgebastida]

After 0.2.7 Glue will require Pillow and not Pil, so this issue should be fixed now.
I'm going to update the documentation with your tips.

Thank you guys!

[jorgebastida]

I've just released glue 0.2.7 and now requires Pillow instead of PIL.

Thank you very much for your help!