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Is the Python Imaging Library not available on PyPI, or am I missing something?

Asked by richardhenry (12692points) June 14th, 2009

PIL website: http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/
PyPI: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/PIL/1.1.6

easy_install pil results in an error:

Searching for pil
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/pil/
Reading http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil
Reading http://effbot.org/zone/pil-changes-115.htm
Reading http://effbot.org/downloads/#Imaging
No local packages or download links found for pil
error: Could not find suitable distribution for Requirement.parse(‘pil’)

Any ideas?

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richardhenry's avatar

Hm, forcing it to find-links seems to be working:

easy_install -f http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/ Imaging

Got a heap of warnings along the way though. I’ll see how it turns out.

richardhenry's avatar

Hm. Now I have a PIL-1.1.6-py2.6-macosx-10.3-fat.egg in my site-packages, but I can’t actually import it. This is all very bizarre.

chyna's avatar

You are talking in a foreign language.

richardhenry's avatar

Actually, I can import it, but Django doesn’t seem to know about it.

Error: One or more models did not validate:
core.userprofile: “avatar”: To use ImageFields, you need to install the Python Imaging Library. Get it at http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/ .

I’m using an ImageField in one of the my models.

andrew's avatar

For OSX, use http://py-pil.darwinports.com/

It was the only thing we could get to work (a few years ago).

richardhenry's avatar

@andrew Yeah, the situation hasn’t changed. That seems to have installed fine, thanks Andrew.

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