How to obtain PIL.Image and PIL.ImageOps? (Pillow)

[JohnScience]

Hi, I'm rewriting a piece of software from Python to Rust.

This piece relies on Pillow library, which is a fork of PIL.

For some reason, it does not permit using PIL.Image but does permit importing it in Python like this:

from PIL import Image

So the following Rust code did not work for me:

Python::with_gil(|py| {
    // ...
    let (Image, ImageOps) = {
        let PIL = py.import("PIL")?;
        (
            PIL.getattr("Image")?,
            PIL.getattr("ImageOps")?,
        )
    };
    // ...
}

I tried obtaining them via a .dict() from PIL module...

Python::with_gil(|py| {
    // ...
    let (Image, ImageOps) = {
        let PIL = py.import("PIL")?;
        let dict = PIL.dict();
        (
            dict.get_item("Image").ok_or(PyImportError::new_err("module 'PIL' has no attribute 'Image'"))?,
            dict.get_item("ImageOps").ok_or(PyImportError::new_err("module 'PIL' has no attribute 'ImageOps'"))?,
        )
    };
    // ...
}

but I failed again.

I guess I should somehow use importlib, yet I'm still in search of what I should have done.

[JohnScience]

I had a chat with Chat GPT and it proposed me this approach:

import importlib

PIL = importlib.import_module('PIL.Image')

and it worked. Then I tried doing it like this:

import PIL.Image

and it worked too! Hope it will help anyone!

[birkenfeld]

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