The other component that you will need to install is the Python Imaging Library (often abbreviated as PIL).

Binaries for windows are available at the main site. Binary packages are much easier to install than from source.

For Mac OS X you can use ports, or find a binary package like the following: | http://pythonmac.org/packages/py25-fat/index.html | This also requires the 2.5 version of Python from python.org. (The one distributed with Leopard won't work)

also [2009.06.26 13:19:06] after installing the python from python.org, make sure that the python in the default path is using the latest python which python python -V should be 2.5.4

sudo rm /usr/bin/python sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/python /usr/bin/python

sudo rm /usr/bin/pythonw sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/pythonw /usr/bin/pythonw

See also: | http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/images/installingPIL.html