title: ImportError: no module named Image, ImportError: no module named PIL -- Python, Anaconda, PIL, pillow, mac 10.10.3,
body: <p>I'm using a Mac OS x 10.10.3 Yosemite, and Python 2.7.9 |Anaconda 2.2.0 (x86_64) for a lot of python stuff. I'm using eclipse, and google app engine. </p>
  
  <p>I'm running out of stack overflow posts to read for this error that a lot of people have, then resolve by some means that has not work for me.</p>
  
  <p>I'm getting this error:</p>
  
  <p>
      import Image
      ImportError: No module named Image</p>
  
  <p><strong>From this code:</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>try:
      from PIL import Image
  except:
      import Image
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>After I already tried the following:</p>
  
  <pre><code>conda install pillow
  sudo pip install pillow
  pip install pillow
  pip install pil
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Some stack overflow post suggested seeing if the path was there for another user, so I tried this in my terminal:</p>
  
  <pre><code>python
  Python 2.7.9 |Anaconda 2.2.0 (x86_64)| (default, Dec 15 2014, 10:37:34) 
  [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5577)] on darwin
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  &gt;&gt;&gt; import sys
  &gt;&gt;&gt; print(sys.path)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>and got:</strong> </p>
  
  <pre><code>['', 
  '/Users/jrussek/anaconda/lib/python27.zip',
  '/Users/jrussek/anaconda/lib/python2.7',
  '/Users/jrussek/anaconda/lib/python2.7/plat-darwin', 
  '/Users/jrussek/anaconda/lib/python2.7/plat-mac', 
  '/Users/jrussek/anaconda/lib/python2.7/plat-mac/lib-scriptpackages',
  '/Users/jrussek/anaconda/lib/python2.7/lib-tk',
  '/Users/jrussek/anaconda/lib/python2.7/lib-old',
  '/Users/jrussek/anaconda/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload',
  '/Users/jrussek/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages',
  '/Users/jrussek/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Sphinx-1.2.3 py2.7.egg', 
  '/Users/jrussek/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/aeosa', 
  '/Users/jrussek/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cryptography-0.8-py2.7-macosx-10.5-x86_64.egg', 
  '/Users/jrussek/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-14.3-py2.7.egg']
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I thought it wasn't in my path so I tried to append the thing:</p>
  
  <pre><code> PYTHONPATH=/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/PIL
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>didn't look like it showed up. </p>
  
  <p>So I tried uninstalling, and reinstalling, in 10 different ways. I only did that for pillow, not PIL because I tried different things for PIL and looked at a lot of posts that said use pillow, not PIL because PIL is deprecated.</p>
  
  <p>Anyway, for pillow I keep getting:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Requirement already up-to-date: pillow in ./anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>clearly pillow is already installed in anaconda, but that doesn't help the import error I keep getting.</p>
  
  <p>so then I tried conda install pillow, </p>
  
  <p>and it upgraded some stuff:</p>
  
  <p>but.. I try running my code again, and I still get no module found, no matter what import statement I try.</p>
  
  <p>Suggestions? Please? Anyone?</p>