error in importing libtiff

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I am trying to use pylibtiff to read tiff files into numpy array.. i installed 
the windows installer provided on the site and now if i try importing, python 
encounters with following error:

>>> from libtiff import *

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:/Python27/testtifflib.py", line 4, in <module>
    from libtiff import *
  File "D:\Python27\lib\site-packages\libtiff\__init__.py", line 4, in <module>
    from .libtiff import libtiff, TIFF
  File "D:\Python27\lib\site-packages\libtiff\libtiff.py", line 35, in <module>
    raise ImportError('Failed to find TIFF library. Make sure that libtiff is installed and its location is listed in PATH|LD_LIBRARY_PATH|..')
ImportError: Failed to find TIFF library. Make sure that libtiff is installed 
and its location is listed in PATH|LD_LIBRARY_PATH|..

i also tried this :

import sys
sys.path.append("D:\\Python27\\Lib\\site-packages\\libtiff")

from libtiff import *

but same error persists.. what can be done in this case??  any help is 
appreciated.. m i missing something here??

Original issue reported on code.google.com by asmi.ca...@gmail.com on 2 Feb 2011 at 12:35

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The referred missing TIFF library is the libtiff binary.
You can crab it from
  http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/tiff.htm

Another approach would be to use pure Python TIFF support.
For that TIFF library support should be disabled by not
importing the libtiff.py module (e.g. edit __init__.py file
accordingly).

Original comment by pearu.peterson on 3 Feb 2011 at 11:26

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Hi,

I have the same problem. I installed first 'tiff-3.8.2-1.exe' and 
'pylibtiff-0.1-svn.win32.exe' afterward. And the libtiff location is listed 
under sys.path ...

So any ideas what to do?

Cheers, Sebi

Original comment by sebrh...@gmail.com on 17 Jan 2012 at 12:41

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Could you try adding the location of the libtiff dll file to the system PATH 
environment variable so that os.environ['PATH'] contains this location.
And then try importing libtiff. 

Original comment by pearu.peterson on 17 Jan 2012 at 1:25

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I am encountering the same problem, I have tried all the suggestions except to 
use pure Python TIFF support (as I have no idea how to do this). Does anyone 
have a solution by now?

Thanks!

Original comment by marcaure...@gmail.com on 26 Jun 2013 at 2:17

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I am having the same issues could more light be shed on how to install

Thanks!

Original comment by Neel.A.L...@gmail.com on 11 Oct 2013 at 5:23

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Hi,
I had/have the same problem. I work on debian with 0.3.0~svn78-3.1 and libtiff 
4.0.3. I was able to get a work around by copying 
/usr/share/pyshared/libtiff/tiff_h_4_0_1.py to my working directory and rename 
it tiff_h_4_0_3.py. It should work putting it in /usr/share/pyshared/libtiff 
but it didn't, but that's probably just because of a stupid mistake.

Good luck
Ben

Original comment by HBStri...@googlemail.com on 12 Mar 2014 at 4:20

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If you use a 64-bit version of Windows, you should also copy libtiff3.dll to 
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\

I did this and it worked for me.

Original comment by KevinSco...@gmail.com on 27 Jan 2015 at 7:58

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@Kevin : I tried that but still same problem

Original comment by nikhilga...@gmail.com on 28 Jan 2015 at 7:24

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@Kevin: I have been struggled with this problem for almost whole day, and then 
this libtiff3.dll with 64-bit Windows 7 trick worked out, really nice. Thanks a 
lot!

Original comment by hzq....@gmail.com on 5 Feb 2015 at 3:38