Installation
To get PIL, the first step is to install pip, which is a program that is used to download almost all Python modules. If you are using any Python version > 3.4, pip should come installed on your machine. If not, download get-pip.py, and run python get-pip.py
from the command line.
Windows
You can download PIL for Python 3 at this link here: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ - scroll down to the pillow section (pillow is just the name for newer versions of PIL), and select either Pillow‑4.1.1‑cp35‑cp35m‑win32.whl
orPillow‑4.1.1‑cp35‑cp35m‑win\_amd64.whl
, depending on whether or not your version of Windows is 32-bit or 64-bit.
Once you've done this, navigate to the appropriate directory, and run pip install <file>
, where <file>
is the name of the file we downloaded above.
Mac
For mac, there's no need to download any .whl files - simply run:pip3 install pillow
from the command line.
Did it work?
To test if the installation was successful, open up the command line, and run
$ python3
>>import PIL
If this did not pull up a module error, then you should be good to go!