[Tutor] problem importing the PIL and cPickle module

[Kent Johnson]

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Khalid Al-Ghamdi <emailkgnow at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm currently using python 3.1 and I tried to import PIL and cPickle as per
> tutorial i was following, but both gave me errors. I tried to download PIL
> from its respective site, but it only installed on the python 2.6
> directory.

If you are using a Python 2 tutorial you will find it much easier to
use Python 2.6 instead of 3.1.

> As for cPickle, I couldn't find it, but I found some kind of reference to
> _pickle in the python documentation.
> my questions:
> is there a way to import PIL to python 3?

No, PIL is not available for python 3

> is _pickle the same as cPickle?

More or less, but it is used automatically when it is available. You
should just use pickle in Python 3.

Kent