_imaging Failed to Import in from PIL import Image #5573
Description
What did you do?
from PIL import Image
What did you expect to happen?
Image would import without errors
What actually happened?
from PIL import Image
File "C:\...\PIL\Image.py", line 114, in <module>
from . import _imaging as core
ImportError: DLL load failed while importing _imaging: The specified module could not be found.`
What are your OS, Python and Pillow versions?
- OS: Windows 10
- Python: 3.9.5 (and 3.9.6)
- Pillow: 8.3
I installed PIL 8.3 today and then ran into the _imaging import issue. There were previous old threads on a similar problem which mentioned reinstalling pillow but that did not work. I tried importing Image from a different device with python 3.9.5 and Pillow 8.3 without any issues so I then reinstalled python 3.9.5 on the device where pillow did not work. After reinstalling python, Pillow still ran into the same importing problems.
To get pillow to work I had to pip install version 8.2