Install Python Image Library (PIL) on OSX
By Rayed
PIL or Python Imaging Library is a library that allows you to manipulate images in Python programming language, trying to install “PIL” using “pip” tool won’t work perfectly so here is how to proper installation.
Install Brew
Brew is a package management system that simplifies the installation of software on Mac OS X, you can install it easily with the following command:
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)"
Install Pil
Actually we will install “pillow” a fork of “pil”:
brew install samueljohn/python/pillow
Configure your Python Path
To make PIL available to Python we add its path to PYTHONPATH variable:
vi ~/.bash_profile
PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages:$PYTHONPATH
export PYTHONPATH
Check it
To test if you have PIL installed:
python -c "import PIL.Image"
You shouldn’t get any errors.