Error: cannot import name '_imagingft' about pillow

[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.
Discarding https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/f8/3e/32cbd0129a28686621434cbf17bb64bf1458bfb838f1f668262fefce145c/pillow-10.2.0.tar.gz#sha256=e87f0b2c78157e12d7686b27d63c070fd65d994e8ddae6f328e0dcf4a0cd007e (from https://pypi.org/simple/pillow/) (requires-python:>=3.8): Requested unknown from https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/f8/3e/32cbd0129a28686621434cbf17bb64bf1458bfb838f1f668262fefce145c/pillow-10.2.0.tar.gz#sha256=e87f0b2c78157e12d7686b27d63c070fd65d994e8ddae6f328e0dcf4a0cd007e has inconsistent name: filename has 'pillow', but metadata has 'unknown'
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
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
libbrotli-dev libfreetype-dev libpng-dev libpng-tools
Suggested packages:
freetype2-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libbrotli-dev libfreetype-dev libfreetype6-dev libpng-dev libpng-tools
0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 57 not upgraded.
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After this operation, 3123 kB of additional disk space will be used.
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Get:3 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports jammy-updates/main armhf libfreetype-dev armhf 2.11.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.2 [498 kB]
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Restarting services...
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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)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 46.6/46.6 MB 1.1 MB/s eta 0:00:00
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.
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'
Downloading pillow-10.2.0.tar.gz (46.2 MB)
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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