Anaconda python, PIL and imagingtk

Question

Although this is a reasonably well documented problem, I can't find a solution.

I cannot import PIL and ImageTK.

Minimal example:

import Tkinter as tk
from PIL import Image, ImageTk

root = tk.Tk()
image = Image.open('live.ppm')
photo = ImageTk.PhotoImage(image)

This produces the error:

File "C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\PIL\ImageTk.py", line 181, in paste
    import _imagingtk
ImportError: No module named _imagingtk

I have tried:

conda install pillow
conda remove PIL

But no luck.

Answer 1

After uninstalling pillow and PIL:

pip install image

Fixed this issue.