PIL or Pillow installation issues and PNG metadata

rduritsa

Hello. I am looking to edit/append metadata to exported png files from Drawbot. After doing some research, it looks like the pillow PIL library can do something like this:

from PIL import image
targetImage = Image.open("testimage.png")
targetImage.info["MyNewString"] = "A string"
targetImage.info["MyNewInt"] = 1234
targetImage.save("test images/addedData.png")

But I tried to install pillow through the Drawbot "Install Python Packages..." terminal and it looks like it installed successfully, but when I run the "from PIL import image" line in my code, it gives me the following error:

ImportError: cannot import name 'image' from 'PIL' (/Users/username/Library/Application Support/DrawBot/Python3.7/PIL/init.py)

That is the correct directory where it should be looking. Interestingly enough if I go outside Drawbot to Mac Terminal, then run the python version command (python3 -V), it says I am running Python 3.8.9. Strange because I can't find any evidence on my machine that version 3.8.9 is installed. Does anyone have any ideas on what the issue could be? Many thanks in advance for any help.

frederik

what version of drawBot do you use?

PIL (pillow) is embedded now as a package inside the app bundle.

rduritsa

Running Drawbot 3.128.

monomonnik

@rduritsa said in PIL or Pillow installation issues and PNG metadata:

from PIL import image

Shouldn’t that be Image instead of image?