[Tutor] PIL problem

Jim Byrnes jf_byrnes at comcast.net
Fri May 7 21:40:46 CEST 2010


Alex Clark wrote:
> On 2010-05-07, Jim Byrnes<jf_byrnes at comcast.net>  wrote:
>> Running Unbuntu 9.10. The Synaptic Pkg Mgr reports python-imaging -
>> 1.1.6-3ubuntu1 - Python Imaging Library is installed.
>>
>> But trying to import PhotoImage gives these results:
>>
>>
>>>>> from ImageTk import PhotoImage
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>     File "<stdin>", line 1, in<module>
>> ImportError: No module named ImageTk
>>
>> What have I gotten wrong?
>
>
> Try import PIL.ImageTk
>
> (if you look inside the package, you will notice ImageTk is inside a directory called PIL)
>

I didn't have a necessary package installed.  Once it is installed 
import ImageTk works.

Regards,  Jim


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