How do I install PIL/Pillow for Python 3.6?

Question

I have a script that requires PIL to run. Other than downgrading my Python, I couldn't find anyway to install PIL on my Python 3.6

Here are my attempts:

pip install pil
Collecting pil
  Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement pil (from versions: )
No matching distribution found for pil

pip install Pillow
Collecting Pillow
  Using cached Pillow-3.3.1.zip
Installing collected packages: Pillow
  Running setup.py install for Pillow ... error
    Complete output from command c:\python\python36\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='C:\\Users\\ABDULR~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-build-rez5zpri\\Pillow\\setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record C:\Users\ABDULR~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-a5bugnjo-record\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile:
    Single threaded build for windows
    running install
    running build
    running build_py
    creating build
    creating build\lib.win-amd64-3.6
    creating build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\PIL
    copying PIL\......................
    ..................................
    ..................................
    running egg_info
    writing Pillow.egg-info\PKG-INFO
    writing dependency_links to Pillow.egg-info\dependency_links.txt
    writing top-level names to Pillow.egg-info\top_level.txt
    warning: manifest_maker: standard file '-c' not found

    reading manifest file 'Pillow.egg-info\SOURCES.txt'
    reading manifest template 'MANIFEST.in'
    warning: no files found matching '*.sh'
    no previously-included directories found matching 'docs\_static'
    warning: no previously-included files found matching '.coveragerc'
    warning: no previously-included files found matching '.editorconfig'
    warning: no previously-included files found matching '.landscape.yaml'
    warning: no previously-included files found matching 'appveyor.yml'
    warning: no previously-included files found matching 'build_children.sh'
    warning: no previously-included files found matching 'tox.ini'
    warning: no previously-included files matching '.git*' found anywhere in distribution
    warning: no previously-included files matching '*.pyc' found anywhere in distribution
    warning: no previously-included files matching '*.so' found anywhere in distribution
    writing manifest file 'Pillow.egg-info\SOURCES.txt'
    copying PIL\OleFileIO-README.md -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\PIL
    running build_ext
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "C:\Users\ABDULR~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-rez5zpri\Pillow\setup.py", line 753, in <module>
        zip_safe=not debug_build(), )
      File "c:\python\python36\lib\distutils\core.py", line 148, in setup
        dist.run_commands()
      File "c:\python\python36\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 955, in run_commands
        self.run_command(cmd)
      File "c:\python\python36\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 974, in run_command
        cmd_obj.run()
      File "c:\python\python36\lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\install.py", line 61, in run
        return orig.install.run(self)
      File "c:\python\python36\lib\distutils\command\install.py", line 539, in run
        self.run_command('build')
      File "c:\python\python36\lib\distutils\cmd.py", line 313, in run_command
        self.distribution.run_command(command)
      File "c:\python\python36\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 974, in run_command
        cmd_obj.run()
      File "c:\python\python36\lib\distutils\command\build.py", line 135, in run
        self.run_command(cmd_name)
      File "c:\python\python36\lib\distutils\cmd.py", line 313, in run_command
        self.distribution.run_command(command)
      File "c:\python\python36\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 974, in run_command
        cmd_obj.run()
      File "c:\python\python36\lib\distutils\command\build_ext.py", line 338, in run
        self.build_extensions()
      File "C:\Users\ABDULR~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-rez5zpri\Pillow\setup.py", line 521, in build_extensions
        ' using --disable-%s, aborting' % (f, f))
    ValueError: zlib is required unless explicitly disabled using --disable-zlib, aborting

    ----------------------------------------
Command "c:\python\python36\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='C:\\Users\\ABDULR~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-build-rez5zpri\\Pillow\\setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record C:\Users\ABDULR~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-a5bugnjo-record\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\ABDULR~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-rez5zpri\Pillow\

Didn't know to add argument --disable-zlib, pip install Pillow --disable-zlib wasn't correct.

Couldn't find what matches my system here: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pillow/3.0.0

64-bit Windows 10 & Python 3.6

Answer 1

For python version 2.x you can simply use

• pip install pillow

But for python version 3.X you need to specify

• (sudo) pip3 install pillow

when you enter pip in bash hit tab and you will see what options you have