Error: cannot import name '_imagingft'

[SPIN04]

i'm trying to manipulate the image adding a text overlay, the overlay of image work fine but the text dosn't work giving me this error
Error: cannot import name '_imagingft' from 'PIL' (/home/spino/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/PIL/init.py)

also during the installation i got a bunch of warnign

spino@api:~/cam$ pypy3 -m pip install --upgrade Pillow
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Collecting Pillow
  Downloading pillow-10.3.0.tar.gz (46.6 MB)
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  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
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  WARNING: Generating metadata for package Pillow produced metadata for project name unknown. Fix your #egg=Pillow fragments.
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  Installing build dependencies ... \^canceled
ERROR: Operation cancelled by user
^[[A^[[Aspino@apisudo apt install pypy3e Pillow
[sudo] password for spino:
sudo: a password is required
spino@api:~/cam$ pip uninstall pillow
WARNING: Skipping pillow as it is not installed.
spino@api:~/cam$ python3 test.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/spino/cam/test.py", line 1, in <module>
    import PIL
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'PIL'

then i installed pillow with pip install pillow==10.3.0

Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Collecting pillow==10.3.0
  Using cached pillow-10.3.0-cp310-cp310-linux_armv7l.whl
Installing collected packages: pillow
Successfully installed pillow-10.3.0
spino@api:~/cam$ python3 test.py
<module 'PIL' from '/home/spino/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/PIL/__init__.py'>

so i tried the code to put the overlay and the error showed up

What are your OS, Python and Pillow versions?

• OS: Distributor ID: Ubuntu
  Description: Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS
  Release: 22.04
  Codename: jammy

• Python: 3.10.12

• Pillow: 10.3.0

spino@api:~/cam$ python3 -m PIL.report
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Pillow 10.3.0
Python 3.10.12 (main, Nov 20 2023, 15:14:05) [GCC 11.4.0]
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Python executable is /usr/bin/python3
System Python files loaded from /usr
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Python Pillow modules loaded from /home/spino/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/PIL
Binary Pillow modules loaded from /home/spino/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/PIL
--------------------------------------------------------------------
--- PIL CORE support ok, compiled for 10.3.0
*** TKINTER support not installed
*** FREETYPE2 support not installed
*** LITTLECMS2 support not installed
*** WEBP support not installed
*** WEBP Transparency support not installed
*** WEBPMUX support not installed
*** WEBP Animation support not installed
--- JPEG support ok, compiled for libjpeg-turbo 2.1.2
*** OPENJPEG (JPEG2000) support not installed
--- ZLIB (PNG/ZIP) support ok, loaded 1.2.11
--- LIBTIFF support ok, loaded 4.3.0
*** RAQM (Bidirectional Text) support not installed
*** LIBIMAGEQUANT (Quantization method) support not installed
*** XCB (X protocol) support not installed
--------------------------------------------------------------------

main.py
from log import write_to_log as log
from camera_util import scatta, overlay_barre,overlay_testo

import time
start_time = time.time()
log("inizio scatto")

try:
    log("dentro try",'debug')
    scatta()
    log("dopo scatto",'debug')
except Exception as e:
    log(f"errore{e}","fatal")
    
log("fine scatto")

log("inizio set overlay barre")
overlay_barre()
log("fine set overlay barre")

log("inizio set overlay testo")
overlay_testo("casela vista valle","center","bottom")
log("fine set overlay testo")


end_time = time.time()

execution_time = end_time - start_time
print("Tempo di esecuzione:", execution_time, "secondi")


camera_util.py

from PIL import Image, ImageStat, ImageDraw, ImageFont

from time import sleep
from picamera import PiCamera
from fractions import Fraction

def scatta():
    
    try:
        camera = PiCamera()
        camera.resolution = (1024, 768)
        
        
        camera.start_preview(fullscreen=False)
        camera.framerate=1
        camera.sensor_mode=3
        # Camera warm-up time
        sleep(5)
        camera.capture('pictures/foo.jpg')

        
    finally:
        # Assicurati di chiudere correttamente la fotocamera anche in caso di errore
        camera.stop_preview()
        camera.close()
        
def overlay_barre():

    # Carica l'immagine di base
    base_image = Image.open("pictures/foo.jpg")

    # Carica l'immagine monocromatica
    monochrome_image = Image.open("pictures/Barre.png")

    # Ottieni le dimensioni dell'immagine di base
    base_width, base_height = base_image.size

    # Ridimensiona l'immagine monocromatica alle dimensioni dell'immagine di base
    monochrome_resized = monochrome_image.resize((base_width, 30))

    # Sovrapposizione dell'immagine monocromatica nella parte superiore dell'immagine di base
    base_image.paste(monochrome_resized, (0, 0))
    base_image.paste(monochrome_resized, (0, base_height - 20))

    # Salva l'immagine con la sovrapposizione
    base_image.save("pictures/output_image.jpg")
    


def overlay_testo(text: str, x_position: str, y_position: str) -> Image.Image:
    """
    Creates a text overlay on the given image.

    Args:
    - text (str): The text content to overlay.
    - x_position (str): The position of the text overlay on the x-axis (left, center, right).
    - y_position (str): The position of the text overlay on the y-axis (top, bottom).

    Returns:
    - Image.Image: The image with the text overlay.
    """
    try:
        # Open the image
        with Image.open("pictures/output_image.jpg") as img:
            # Get image dimensions
            image_width, image_height = img.size

            # Create font and calculate text size
            font_size = 24  # Change as needed
            font = ImageFont.truetype("/font/COMICSANS.TTF", font_size)
            text_width, text_height = font.getsize(text)

            # Calculate x position
            if x_position == "left":
                x = 10
            elif x_position == "center":
                x = (image_width - text_width) // 2
            elif x_position == "right":
                x = image_width - text_width - 10
            else:
                raise ValueError("Invalid x position. Position must be one of: left, center, right")

            # Calculate y position
            if y_position == "top":
                y = 10
            elif y_position == "bottom":
                y = image_height - text_height - 10
            else:
                raise ValueError("Invalid y position. Position must be one of: top, bottom")

            # Add text overlay
            draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img)
            draw.text((x, y), text, fill="white", font=font)

            return img

    except Exception as e:
        print("Error:", e)
        return None

# Example usage:
# create_text_overlay("Hello, Pillow!", "center", "bottom")

[radarhere]

Hi. You are missing a dependency, as you are building from source. Please try the following

python3 -m pip uninstall Pillow
sudo apt-get install libfreetype6-dev
python3 -m pip install Pillow

For your pypy3 warnings, I would suggest you uninstall Pillow, upgrade pypy3's pip and try again - but it's not relevant if you are ultimately running python3 instead.

[nulano]

pypy3 -m pip install --upgrade Pillow
apt install pypy3e Pillow
pip uninstall pillow
then i installed pillow with pip install pillow==10.3.0
python3 -m PIL.report

You are mixing a bunch of different tools here.
Are you trying to use Pillow with pypy3 or /usr/bin/python3?

You should avoid using pip directly because it is not clear which Python version will be used. Instead use pypy3 -m pip or python3 -m pip as radarhere showed above.

Using cached pillow-10.3.0-cp310-cp310-linux_armv7l.whl

What is your CPU architecture? I don't know if anyone has tried installing Pillow with PyPy on arm before. Edit: Actually, arm64 does seem to be covered by our CI, but not 32-bit arm.

[SPIN04]

spino@api:/cam$ python3 -m pip uninstall Pillow
Found existing installation: pillow 10.3.0
Uninstalling pillow-10.3.0:
Would remove:
/home/spino/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/PIL/*
/home/spino/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pillow-10.3.0.dist-info/*
Proceed (Y/n)? y
Successfully uninstalled pillow-10.3.0
spino@api:/cam$ sudo apt-get install libfreetype6-dev
[sudo] password for spino:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
libfreetype6-dev is already the newest version (2.11.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.2).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
spino@api:/cam$ python3 -m pip install Pillow
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Collecting Pillow
Using cached pillow-10.3.0-cp310-cp310-linux_armv7l.whl
Installing collected packages: Pillow
Successfully installed Pillow-10.3.0
spino@api:/cam$ python3 main.py
[2024-04-06 15:23:36.207552] [INFO] [main.py] [6] inizio scatto
[2024-04-06 15:23:36.211329] [DEBUG] [main.py] [9] dentro try
[2024-04-06 15:23:48.822373] [DEBUG] [main.py] [11] dopo scatto
[2024-04-06 15:23:48.825461] [INFO] [main.py] [15] fine scatto
[2024-04-06 15:23:48.830057] [INFO] [main.py] [17] inizio set overlay barre
[2024-04-06 15:23:49.165905] [INFO] [main.py] [19] fine set overlay barre
[2024-04-06 15:23:49.169826] [INFO] [main.py] [21] inizio set overlay testo
Error: cannot import name '_imagingft' from 'PIL' (/home/spino/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/PIL/init.py)
[2024-04-06 15:23:49.175737] [INFO] [main.py] [23] fine set overlay testo
Tempo di esecuzione: 13.048155307769775 secondi

same error this is running on raspberrry pi2

[radarhere]

I've realised I was wrong - you're not installing from source for python3. I suspect you're using piwheels like #5818.

Could you try this?

python3 -m pip uninstall Pillow
python3 -m pip install Pillow --no-binary :all:

[SPIN04]

same error, i tryed to reinstall the OS and the same error occurred during the installation of pillow WARNING: Generating metadata for package Pillow produced metadata for project name unknown. Fix your #egg=Pillow fragments.
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Downloading Pillow-10.1.0.tar.gz (50.8 MB)

the only onw that work is the 10.1.0 but there is always this error Error: cannot import name '_imagingft' from 'PIL' (/home/spino/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/PIL/init.py)
now i'm trying to reinstall again everythin

spino@api:~$ sudo apt-get install libfreetype6-dev

Reading package lists... Done
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Reading state information... Done
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libbrotli-dev libfreetype-dev libpng-dev libpng-tools
Suggested packages:
freetype2-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
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spino@api:~$ pip install pillow==10.3.0
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Collecting pillow==10.3.0
Downloading pillow-10.3.0.tar.gz (46.6 MB)
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Installing build dependencies ... done
Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
Installing backend dependencies ... done
Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done
WARNING: Generating metadata for package pillow produced metadata for project name unknown. Fix your #egg=pillow fragments.
Discarding https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/ef/43/c50c17c5f7d438e836c169e343695534c38c77f60e7c90389bd77981bc21/pillow-10.3.0.tar.gz#sha256=9d2455fbf44c914840c793e89aa82d0e1763a14253a000743719ae5946814b2d (from https://pypi.org/simple/pillow/) (requires-python:>=3.8): Requested unknown from https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/ef/43/c50c17c5f7d438e836c169e343695534c38c77f60e7c90389bd77981bc21/pillow-10.3.0.tar.gz#sha256=9d2455fbf44c914840c793e89aa82d0e1763a14253a000743719ae5946814b2d has inconsistent name: filename has 'pillow', but metadata has 'unknown'
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement pillow==10.3.0 (from versions: 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7.0, 1.7.1, 1.7.2, 1.7.3, 1.7.4, 1.7.5, 1.7.6, 1.7.7, 1.7.8, 2.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.2.0, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.3.0, 2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.4.0, 2.5.0, 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.5.3, 2.6.0, 2.6.1, 2.6.2, 2.7.0, 2.8.0, 2.8.1, 2.8.2, 2.9.0, 3.0.0, 3.1.0rc1, 3.1.0, 3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.2.0, 3.3.0, 3.3.1, 3.3.2, 3.3.3, 3.4.0, 3.4.1, 3.4.2, 4.0.0, 4.1.0, 4.1.1, 4.2.0, 4.2.1, 4.3.0, 5.0.0, 5.1.0, 5.2.0, 5.3.0, 5.4.0, 5.4.1, 6.0.0, 6.1.0, 6.2.0, 6.2.1, 6.2.2, 7.0.0, 7.1.0, 7.1.1, 7.1.2, 7.2.0, 8.0.0, 8.0.1, 8.1.0, 8.1.1, 8.1.2, 8.2.0, 8.3.0, 8.3.1, 8.3.2, 8.4.0, 9.0.0, 9.0.1, 9.1.0, 9.1.1, 9.2.0, 9.3.0, 9.4.0, 9.5.0, 10.0.0, 10.0.1, 10.1.0, 10.2.0, 10.3.0)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for pillow==10.3.0

spino@api:~$ python3 -m pip install Pillow --no-binary :all:
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Collecting Pillow
Using cached pillow-10.3.0.tar.gz (46.6 MB)
Installing build dependencies ... done
Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
Installing backend dependencies ... done
Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done
WARNING: Generating metadata for package Pillow produced metadata for project name unknown. Fix your #egg=Pillow fragments.
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^CERROR: Operation cancelled by user

[radarhere]

Could you try upgrading pip?

python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip
python3 -m pip uninstall Pillow
python3 -m pip install Pillow --no-binary :all:

Also, why do you keep cancelling the operation?

[SPIN04]

i have tryed something and instaled a bounch of package, now is working but i have a different error when i run the code
all the file are in the cam folder and has 777 permission

spino@api:~/cam$ python3 main.py
[2024-04-07 14:54:57.371576] [INFO] [main.py] [6] inizio scatto
[2024-04-07 14:54:57.380451] [DEBUG] [main.py] [9] dentro try
[2024-04-07 14:55:10.075407] [DEBUG] [main.py] [12] dopo scatto
[2024-04-07 14:55:10.077701] [INFO] [main.py] [16] fine scatto
[2024-04-07 14:55:10.081333] [INFO] [main.py] [18] inizio set overlay barre
[2024-04-07 14:55:10.430679] [INFO] [main.py] [20] fine set overlay barre
[2024-04-07 14:55:10.434453] [INFO] [main.py] [22] inizio set overlay testo
Error: cannot open resource<-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[2024-04-07 14:55:10.447879] [INFO] [main.py] [24] fine set overlay testo
Tempo di esecuzione: 13.152425765991211 secondi

[radarhere]

I expect that is trying to tell you that the path to the font is incorrect.

[SPIN04]

fixed, now it is writing, no error but i wonder if there is a way to get the height that the text will cover
getlength but i can't find in the documentation the height

[nulano]

See draw.textbbox

[SPIN04]

ok now it works fine

[bryankaplan]

i have tryed something and instaled a bounch of package, now is working

@SPIN04 Could you please be a lot more specific? I am encountering this error, and I'd like to know how to fix it. What do I need to install, specifically?

[aclark4life]

@bryankaplan Can you import _imagingft? Not that you'd normally do that, but that may tell you if you have a font path issue or something else.

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alexclark@alexclarks-Air /Users/alexclark/Developer/zeitbyte/zeitcaster-events                                                                        develop
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alexclark@alexclarks-Air /var/folders/mm/j6wyq9tx3_q669dsp5kfsj_80000gn/T/tmpu6gq58py                                                                           
⚡ v
Using Python 3.12.4 interpreter at: /opt/homebrew/opt/[email protected]/bin/python3.12
Creating virtualenv at: .venv
Activate with: source .venv/bin/activate
Looking in links: /var/folders/mm/j6wyq9tx3_q669dsp5kfsj_80000gn/T/tmpqc7gg9xh
Processing /var/folders/mm/j6wyq9tx3_q669dsp5kfsj_80000gn/T/tmpqc7gg9xh/pip-24.0-py3-none-any.whl
Installing collected packages: pip
Successfully installed pip-24.0

alexclark@alexclarks-Air /var/folders/mm/j6wyq9tx3_q669dsp5kfsj_80000gn/T/tmpu6gq58py                                                                           
⚡ s
(tmpu6gq58py) 
alexclark@alexclarks-Air /var/folders/mm/j6wyq9tx3_q669dsp5kfsj_80000gn/T/tmpu6gq58py                                                                           
⚡ pip install Pillow
Collecting Pillow
  Using cached pillow-10.4.0-cp312-cp312-macosx_11_0_arm64.whl.metadata (9.2 kB)
Using cached pillow-10.4.0-cp312-cp312-macosx_11_0_arm64.whl (3.4 MB)
Installing collected packages: Pillow
Successfully installed Pillow-10.4.0

[notice] A new release of pip is available: 24.0 -> 24.2
[notice] To update, run: pip install --upgrade pip
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alexclark@alexclarks-Air /var/folders/mm/j6wyq9tx3_q669dsp5kfsj_80000gn/T/tmpu6gq58py                                                                           
⚡ python
Python 3.12.4 (main, Jun  6 2024, 18:26:44) [Clang 15.0.0 (clang-1500.3.9.4)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from PIL import _imagingft
>>> 

[bryankaplan]

@aclark4life Negative.

In [1]: from PIL import _imagingft
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[1], line 1
----> 1 from PIL import _imagingft

ImportError: cannot import name '_imagingft' from 'PIL' ([REDACTED]/venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/PIL/__init__.py)

[aclark4life]

@aclark4life Negative.

OK then, installation issue. For whatever it's worth, my macOS wheel appears to be dynamically linked to Homebrew deps

(tmpl1upjlzp) ➜  tmpl1upjlzp  otool -L /private/var/folders/mm/j6wyq9tx3_q669dsp5kfsj_80000gn/T/tmpl1upjlzp/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/PIL/_imagingft.cpython-312-darwin.so
/private/var/folders/mm/j6wyq9tx3_q669dsp5kfsj_80000gn/T/tmpl1upjlzp/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/PIL/_imagingft.cpython-312-darwin.so:
	@loader_path/.dylibs/libfreetype.6.dylib (compatibility version 27.0.0, current version 27.1.0)
	@loader_path/.dylibs/libharfbuzz.0.dylib (compatibility version 60851.0.0, current version 60851.0.0)
	/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1336.0.0)
(tmpl1upjlzp) ➜  tmpl1upjlzp  brew search freetype
==> Formulae
freetype ✔                                                                       freebayes

==> Casks
freetube
(tmpl1upjlzp) ➜  tmpl1upjlzp  brew search harfbuzz   
==> Formulae
harfbuzz ✔                                                                       harbour
(tmpl1upjlzp) ➜  tmpl1upjlzp  

[bryankaplan]

Agreed, it's an installation issue, and I'm probably missing some dependency. I'm on Void Linux. I already had both harfbuzz-devel and freetype-devel installed.

[nulano]

i have tryed something and instaled a bounch of package, now is working

@SPIN04 Could you please be a lot more specific? I am encountering this error, and I'd like to know how to fix it. What do I need to install, specifically?

In most cases you don't need to install anything other than just Pillow, and I usually find that the exceptions are easiest to diagnose starting from the beginning. So could you please create a new issue, making sure to provide your OS version and output from running python3 -m PIL.report as shown in the template, as well as how you installed Pillow?

[bryankaplan]

@nulano Thank you. Done ^.

[aclark4life]

In most cases you don't need to install anything other than just Pillow

Right, I had to go look it up. I forgot the most important difference between static and dynamic linking is linking-at-compile-time vs. linking-at-runtime. So in my example, if I were to unzip the Pillow wheel, I'd find the dylibs whose path begins with @loader_path. 🚀