Python Module Installation Error Code 1

Question

Over the last couple of days, I have been having been attempting to install the pyautogui module via pip. it isn't going well. I've attempted the few fixes I've seen online, but none work. I need some help. Here's a copy of my CMD text:

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
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C:\Users\FrankFritz>py -m pip install pyautogui
Collecting pyautogui
  Using cached PyAutoGUI-0.9.31.zip
Collecting pymsgbox (from pyautogui)
  Using cached PyMsgBox-1.0.3.zip
Collecting PyTweening>=1.0.1 (from pyautogui)
  Using cached PyTweening-1.0.3.zip
Collecting Pillow (from pyautogui)
  Using cached Pillow-3.0.0-cp35-none-win_amd64.whl
Collecting pyscreeze (from pyautogui)
  Using cached PyScreeze-0.1.8.zip
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 20, in <module>
      File "C:\Users\FrankFritz\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-yjly5zdh\pyscreeze\setup.p
y", line 6, in <module>
        version=__import__('pyscreeze').__version__,
      File "C:\Users\FrankFritz\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-yjly5zdh\pyscreeze\pyscree
ze\__init__.py", line 21, in <module>
        from PIL import Image
    ImportError: No module named 'PIL'

    ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\FrankFritz\AppD
ata\Local\Temp\pip-build-yjly5zdh\pyscreeze

Thank you in advance, it has been very frustrating.

Answer 1

Install PIL first. If you're using Py3, install Pillow , a PIL substitute.

Answer 2

Press win key + R then type cmd

in command prompt type:

cd xx/pythonxx/scripts # xx represents your python directory eg C:/python34/script

pip install pillow # for python 3xx versions

pip install pil # for python 2xx versions

pip install pyautogui # this should work now

Answer 3

I had the same problem trying to install pyautogui for Python 3.4 on Windows 7. Finally managed to get it working by doing the following:

easy_install.exe Pillow
pip install pyautogui

Hope this helps others as well.