PIL for Google App Engine's Python SDK

If you plan to use images in your Django-framwork Google App, you need to add the Python Image Library. If you are using os x 10.5, this bullet list can help set it up. This assumes you are working with the native Python 2.5 installation rather than a new install. Why install it again? You don't need to.

• Google's PIL documentation is fine but fragmentary.
• The update provided by Matt Kangas is really all you need.
• If you have not modified Terminal to run shell scripts, macfidelity provides details to get the job done.

That should be all that is required.

Python Image Library (PIL) on MediaTemple (dv)

When you're on MediaTemple (dv) with root access, first get the TAR from here. As of this post, the latest version is 1.1.6.

wget http://effbot.org/downloads/Imaging-1.1.6.tar.gz

Untar in the usual way.

tar zxvf Imaging-1.1.6.tar.gz

Then, go into the created folder and install the package using:

python setup.py install

If all goes well your ssh will echo many installation processes, following which you will have an amazingly easy time working with images via http.