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I installed the Pillow package with:

python -m pip install pillow

Got success message (Successfully installed pillow). Closed and re-opened the terminal.

But when I try to: 

import pillow

I get the error message:

ImportError: No module named pillow

If python -m pip install pillow is run again, it says 

Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): pillow in c:\python27\lib\site-packages
Emma
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Try using 

import PIL

or

from PIL import ...

instead. Pillow is a fork of PIL, the Python Imaging Library, which is no longer maintained. However, to maintain backwards compatibility, the old module name is used.

MattDMo
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