This is a quick workaround for people who are using easy_install to install Python Imaging Library on Windows. Many people faced issues while doing this. I found a simple workaround for this.

You must have tried the following

Now you will need to go to your site-packages directory (typically at C:\Python\Lib\site-packages) and change one line that starts with ./PIL-1.1.6-py2.5-win32.egg to simply ./PIL and change the sub-directory named similarly to PIL

Now your imports should work

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