Could not import PILLOW_VERSION from PIL

Question

While importing, Python (Anaconda) gives the following error:

ImportError: cannot import name 'PILLOW_VERSION' from 'PIL' 

I tried removing pillow and then conda install but the error persists.

Answer 1

Pillow 7.0.0 removed PILLOW_VERSION, you should use __version__ in your own code instead.

• https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/deprecations.html#pillow-version-constant

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Edit (2020-01-16):

If using torchvision, this has been fixed in v0.5.0. To fix:

1. Require torchvision>=0.5.0
2. If Pillow was temporarily pinned, remove the pin

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Old info (2020-01-09):

If using torchvision, there is a release planned this week (week 2, 2020) to fix it:

• https://github.com/pytorch/vision/issues/1712#issuecomment-570286349

The options are:

• wait for the new torchvision release
• use the master version of torchvision (eg. pip install -U git+https://github.com/pytorch/vision)
• install torchvision from a nightly, which also requires a pytorch from a nightly version
• or install Pillow<7 (eg. pip install "pillow<7")