py27-pil installation

[Scott Frankel]

Hi Jeremy,

On Jul 11, 2012, at 10:10 PM, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:

>> I'm having difficulty with the py27-pil installation for my new machine running OSX 10.7.4.
>> 
>> 1)  macports reports that the installation succeeds:
>> 
>> % sudo port install py27-pil
>> Password:
>> --->  Computing dependencies for py27-pil
>> --->  Cleaning py27-pil
>> --->  Scanning binaries for linking errors: 100.0%
>> --->  No broken files found.
> 
>> 
>> 2) macports lists the location of the port as being an image file (???):
>> 
>> % port location py27-pil
>> Port py27-pil 1.1.7_4 is installed as an image in:
>> /opt/local/var/macports/software/py27-pil/py27-pil-1.1.7_4.darwin_11.x86_64.tbz2
> 
>   location
>     Print the install location of a given port.
> 
> This is a bit of a semantic argument: the point where it is installed from is the archive. The installed contents is provided by `port contents py27-pil`.

Aha.


>> 3)  the py27-pil components are either not installed, or not installed in their correct location as revealed in Python's cmd-line interpreter:
>> 
>>>>> import Image
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>> ImportError: No module named Image
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> This is the second 10.7.x machine I've used macports to install PIL.  The first was successful without issue.  Is there a step I'm missing?  Any remedial steps I can take to complete/troubleshoot the installation?
> 
> Which python did you run?
> /opt/local/bin/python2.7 is the one that these supposedly installed for.

Bingo!  I was running Apple's installed Python interpreter.  Oops.

Thanks for the tip!
Scott