python - Pillow installed, but getting "no module named pillow" when importing

Question

I installed the Pillow package with:

python -m pip install pillow

Got success message (Successfully installed pillow). Closed and re-opened the terminal.

But when I try to:

import pillow

I get the error message:

ImportError: No module named pillow

If python -m pip install pillow is run again, it says

Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): pillow in c:python27libsite-packages

Answer 1

Try using

import PIL

or

from PIL import ...

instead. Pillow is a fork of PIL, the Python Imaging Library, which is no longer maintained. However, to maintain backwards compatibility, the old module name is used.