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Python Imaging Library ... Help!

Terry Hancock hancock at anansispaceworks.com
Sat Feb 22 03:17:45 EST 2003 
myk wrote:
> I've just killed an evening trying to install the PIL on my HP laptop
> (Omni 6000) running Python 2.2.2 on Windows98.  I've tried the binary
> for PIL 1.1.2 but it automatically installs in Py22 which isn't the name
> of my Python directory.  I also tried unpacking the 1.1.3 tar.gz.  But I
> can't seem to get "setup.py" to run.  A dos window winks in and out of
> existence but the module can't be imported when I try to do so in IDLE.
>  I've tried to figure out what "setup.py" is doing but since I'm a
> Python newbie that didn't help.  Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong or
> how I can very manually get all the files to where they should be?  TIA.

For starters -- you'll want to ask this question on the 
imaging-sig at python.org  mailing list, which is specifically focused on such 
things. Most of the traffic is PIL related, so you'll probably get much 
faster results.

I think there may be some issues with installing from source on Windows, 
but I'm not really sure.  I have to admit to being very out of my element 
on Windows -- I also find it odd that it would unpack into "Py22", but I 
can't really say why that would be.

Good luck with it,
Terry

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