No module named 'PIL'

Question

I'm running into an error where when I try

from PIL import Image, ImageFilter

in a Python file I get an error stating ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'PIL'.

So far I've tried uninstalling/reinstalling both PIL and Pillow, along with just doing import Image, but the error keeps on occurring and I have no idea why. All the solutions I've found so far have had no effect on my issue.

I'm running Python 3.5 on Ubuntu 16.04

Answer 1

Had the same problem before and I tried:

pip install pillow 
pip install image 

import PIL --> still did not work

then I found out that it was installed as pil

c:\python36\lib\site-packages\pil

import pil

pil.__version__

'5.1.0'