pyinstaller no module named 'PIL'???

Question

Hello guys, I have a Tkinter interface working properly running with Python, but when I convert to exercise file with pyinstaller, it shows "no module named 'PIL'

Answer 1

A few reasons this may happen.
1. You don't have PIL installed in the version or virtual environment that you're using to build this project.

2. PIL is the incorrect import.
Try the following;
import Image
from PIL import Image
import pillow
etc.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8863917/importerror-no-module-named-pil

https://github.com/JUMP_LINK__&&__python__&&__JUMP_LINK-pillow/Pillow/issues/3851

https://cloudstack.ninja/major-tonality/how-to-manually-add-pil-module-to-pyinstaller-exe/

Answer 2

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64057842/how-to-manually-add-pil-module-to-pyinstaller-exe
also this, in case you use pycharm.
we used to make pyinstaller images of our software from 2012 to 2017 but abandoned it in the last years because they would not be truly portable anymore. Many systems would block them after spectre and meltdown.
as ChaoticDawg writes, PIL has been replaced by pillow

Answer 3

what is an exercise file?

Answer 4

JIC YDK, PIL is an abbreviation for Python Imaging Library, and is not a dependency of Tkinter’s AFAIK (and no i really wasnt trying to use as many acronyms as possible).