How can i use PIL in python?

Question

I have successfully installed Pillow:

chris@MBPvonChristoph sources % python3 -m pip install --upgrade Pillow
Collecting Pillow
  Using cached Pillow-9.0.1-1-cp310-cp310-macosx_11_0_arm64.whl (2.7 MB)
Installing collected packages: Pillow
Successfully installed Pillow-9.0.1

but when I try to use it in pycharm, I got:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/chris/PycharmProjects/pythonProject2/main.py", line 1, in <module>
    from PIL import Image
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'PIL'

or using it in Blender, I got:

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'PIL'

I am not a Python lib installing pro so obviously I did something wrong. But how do I fix that?

I am working on an M1 Macbook.

Yev Guyduy · Accepted Answer · 2022-03-08 16:42:08Z

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looks like you may need to repoint your pycharm to your installed python interpreter.

go to command line and find out python interpreter path. On windows you can where python in your command line an it will give you where your python and packages are installed.. You could also activate python directly in command line and find paths from there. For example, open command line then;

python

press enter = activates python

within then you can do:

import sys

for x in sys.path: x

In pycharm make sure you point to path discovered from step 1 and select that to be your python interpreter within pycharm --- check out examples here https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/configuring-python-interpreter.html#add-existing-interpreter

Should work. Not sure about all the steps you took, but if you installed python with pycharm on top of your regular installation of python i would recommend :

finding all the paths from step 1
deleting python using system
checking if folders found from paths step still exist
if they do, delete those as well
start over just with one python installation
repoint to that in pycharm

edited Mar 8, 2022 at 16:42

answered Mar 8, 2022 at 16:28

Yev Guyduy

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Chris Over a year ago

i tried that and i got this from pycharm: [1]: i.sstatic.net/whDkJ.png

Yev Guyduy Over a year ago

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ZeQ · Accepted Answer · 2022-03-08 16:10:19Z

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first

pip uninstall PIL

after uninstall

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

or

brew install Pillow

answered Mar 8, 2022 at 16:10

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Chris Over a year ago

if i try to uninstall it says "chris@MBPvonChristoph sources % pip uninstall PIL WARNING: Skipping PIL as it is not installed."

Chris Over a year ago

i got the same error message as i stated in my question

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