[Image-SIG] cannot import from PIL when easy_installed

[Christian Zagrodnick]

Hi there

On 2007-02-04 20:54:09 +0100, Daniel Nouri <daniel.nouri at gmail.com> said:

> 
> When you install PIL via easy_install, you cannot import from the PIL
> module.  Is this a bug in PIL or in code that tries to import "from PIL"?
> 
>   >>> import PIL
>   Traceback (most recent call last):
>     File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   ImportError: No module named PIL
>   >>> import Image #no error
> 
> This is how I install PIL:
> 
>   $ easy_install --find-links http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/ \
>                  Imaging
> 
> There is an open ticket in Plone for this 
> http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/5883


Yes, it would be very nice if PIL got setuptools aware. The current 
state not optimal. Escpecially because it *does* install but then is 
not correctly installed. The setuptools integration is quite important 
for automatically setting up a whole software bundle.

What happens on install is that PIL is not installed as a package but 
its *contents* clutters the namespace. So you get to import Image 
instead of PIL. But you also could just `import ArgImagePlugin` like 
you'd `import sys`.

So, is anybody taking care of this?

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