[Image-SIG] "ImportError: The _imaging C module is not installed."

[Christopher Barker]

On 5/6/11 1:38 PM, Susi wrote:
> Hey! Thanks for your reply.
>
> I have OSX 10.6.7, Python comes on the mac, so I didn't install it.

Personally, I always use the python.org installer for Python, then often 
third party package binaries are available. Peruse the python-mac list 
for far more discussion of the trade offs than you'll ever want to read....

But anyway, if you only want to run things on your own machine, then the 
Apple Python should be fine.

> 2.6.1. I installed PIL like this:
>
> |fink install libjpeg
> curl -Ohttp://effbot.org/media/downloads/Imaging-1.1.6.tar.gz
>
> tar -xzf Imaging-1.1.6.tar.gz
> cd Imaging-1.1.6
> sudo python setup.py install

Did you get any error messages or anything? I'm not sure that distutils 
is going to find fink-installed libraries without some tweeking. I also 
thought there was more than one extra lib needed, but maybe not these days.

Anyway, take a careful look at the output to look for hints of problems.

I also like to do:

python setup.py build
sudo python setup.py install

so I can see what happens during build, and there is no need for sudo 
for the build step.

> If you have any ideas, please let me know. I also had a question; is PIL
> required for python to use images that aren't .bmps? Sorry, I'm totally
> new. Thanks again if you reply!! :)

something is -- the standard lib doesn't have support for images -- PIL 
is the most widely used, and a nice choice.

-Chris



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