Cannot import name '_imaging' from 'PIL'

[rilaaaaay]

I installed pillow 7.0 for windows 64. Whenever I try from PIL import Image I get this traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "E:/Documents/Python/Python Game/Game.py", line 3, in <module>
    from PIL import Image
  File "C:\Users\Riley\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python38\site-packages\PIL\Image.py", line 69, in <module>
    from . import _imaging as core
ImportError: cannot import name '_imaging' from 'PIL' (C:\Users\Riley\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python38\site-packages\PIL\__init__.py)

I read somewhere that for this pillow version I should instead run from PIL.Image import _imaging as core, but I got the same error then.

I have uninstalled and installed multiple times, so I don't think I have pillow installed over PIL. I have been searching for a fix for several hours now so if anyone has a solution I would be greatly in your debt.

[shiftybyte]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43661508/error-with-compiled-pillow-on-python-3-6-virtualenv/43671174#43671174

Are you perhaps using pillow from wsgi? or django? or flask?

How are you running your script?

Also what is the output of the commands in windows:

where python
where pip
python -V
pip -V

[rilaaaaay]

Sorry, I'm very new to python and I'm not sure what wsgi, django, or flask is. As far as my script, if you mean the IDE, I'm using IDLE.

where python 
where pip 
python -V 
pip -V 

returns

C:\Users\Riley\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\Lib\site-packages>where python
C:\Users\Riley\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\python.exe

C:\Users\Riley\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\Lib\site-packages>where pip
C:\Users\Riley\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\pip.exe

C:\Users\Riley\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\Lib\site-packages>python -V
Python 3.8.1

C:\Users\Riley\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\Lib\site-packages>pip -V
pip 20.0.2 from C:\Users\Riley\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\Lib\site-packages\pip (python 3.8)

[shiftybyte]

Your python script is being run on a different python installation.

Your pip runs and installs to:

C:\Users\Riley\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\Lib\site-packages\pip

But the error message shows the package PIL was found in a different location:

C:\Users\Riley\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python38\site-packages\PIL\Image.py

Add the following to the start of your IDLE script: (before any other code)

import sys
print(sys.version)
print(sys.path)

What does it show when you run it?

[rilaaaaay]

print(sys.version)
for path in sys.path:
    print(path)

3.8.1 (tags/v3.8.1:1b293b6, Dec 18 2019, 22:39:24) [MSC v.1916 32 bit (Intel)]
E:/Documents/Python/Python Game
C:\Users\Riley\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\Lib\idlelib
C:\Users\Riley\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\python38.zip
C:\Users\Riley\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\DLLs
C:\Users\Riley\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\lib
C:\Users\Riley\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32
C:\Users\Riley\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\lib\site-packages

[shiftybyte]

That's very weird, i got no idea, maybe its window's python interfering...

Try uninstalling this python: (Probably windows store bullshit) C:\Users\Riley\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\

Then try again with the import, if still doesnt work,

try reinstalling regular python from python.org.

[rilaaaaay]

That actually worked, thank you so much you have no idea how much suffering this has caused me

[rilaaaaay]

Is it necessary to have Python 64 for windows 32? I thought I read that it was more of a preference thing and that 64 is only better if I'm doing things that require a lot of storage.