python - About the PIL Error -- IOError: decoder zip not available

Question

I am getting the:

IOError: decoder zip not available

when I try to draw an image and save to a jpeg in PIL. Any thoughts on how to resolve this? PIL has worked fine for me in the past, when it comes to viewing/uploading images.

Answer 1

sudo pip uninstall PIL
sudo pip install pillow 

^^ fixed it for me.

Pillow is a fork of PIL that is compatible with pip/setuptools and gets a little better maintenance. I haven't seen any API differences yet.

Edit: There is one notable API difference. PIL exposes Image as a top-level namespace, so you can

import Image # in PIL only

but

from PIL import Image  # in pillow or PIL

• Thanks, Leopd!