Django: field type ImageField + PIL

When using Django model’s ImageField, you need to have Python Image Library installed.

If your machine is Linux, easy job. Simply do the typical: wget, configure, make, and make install.

If your machine is Intel OS X… not so easy.

The configure script assumes that the OS X is using PPC architecture, thus make install would fail.

Luckily, folks at pythonmac.org provided a nice installer for PIL. You can get those here. It works for both Tiger and Leopard.

References:

• PIL official site
• Installation for Linux
• http://pythonmac.org/packages/py25-fat/index.html