I installed Pillow but i get “ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'PIL'”

Question

When I try to use from PIL import ImageGrab it gives me this error:

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'PIL'

I installed it with pip install pillow and checked if it is installed with pip show pillow . It says I have Version: 8.1.2

I am using python 3.9 and sublime text 3

In the internet I saw most people with that problem have a not maching python version with the pillow version, but mine should work as far as I understood..? ( https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/installation.html )

However its not working and I am trying to fix this since about two hours and I hope somebody can help me.

Answer 1

You might have different versions of python installed and pip is installing pillow for a different version.

A good way to avoid this is using python -m pip install pillow instead of pip install pillow .

Answer 2

Try to install it with pip3 install pillow

The fact is that you installed it for python2 but your are using python3;)