[Image-SIG] Installing PIL

[Fredrik Lundh]

Robert wrote:

> I for some reason cannot seem to install the python Image Library on my 
> computer. I have tried every solution that I have seen or could think of 
> with no luck. Well I can actually get the PIL to install and import, its 
> just that when I try to work on an image I get the error that the python 
> imaging c library is not installed.

I've added a brief description of what might cause this
problem to the PIL faq:

    http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/faq.htm

(summary: PIL is no different from any other extension;
your interpreter needs to find the PIL files, and on Windows,
the _imaging extension will only work for the python major/
minor version it was built for)

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