ImportError: No module named PIL works for 3.7, but not 3.8

Question

I have the Pillow module installed as seen on pip list. Which shows Pillow 7.2.0.

I have code which works on python 3.7.

from PIL import Image, ImageTk

However, when running the same on python 3.8 get the error message.

Exception has occurred: ModuleNotFoundError
No module named 'PIL'

I note there is supposed to be a working solution here: stack link with potential solutions

2 solutions are:

However, the above suggestions do not work.

How do i get Image and ImageTK working (on version 3.8) please ?

MrJavy · Accepted Answer · 2020-09-23T13:12:52.647

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You could start a virtual environment venv or virtualenv with clean python3.8 and install modules there or try with:

python-3.8 -m pip install Pillow

or

python3.8 -m pip install Pillow

Edit: In the end it worked with:

py -3.8 -m pip install Pillow

Hope this was useful ;)

edited Sep 23 '20 at 13:12

answered Sep 23 '20 at 08:11

MrJavy

'python-3.8' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. both of the above methods fail (not recognised). – D.L Sep 23 '20 at 08:16
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How do you call python 3.8 on your terminal? Try `py -3.8 -m pip install Pillow` – MrJavy Sep 23 '20 at 08:26
this works. [solved]. please amend so that it can be upvoted. – D.L Sep 23 '20 at 10:32
Done amending ;) – MrJavy Sep 23 '20 at 13:13

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