Pillow doesn't work in lambda

[jasonrdunne]

Importing pillow from a lambda layer like so:

from PIL import Image

Gives this error: [ERROR] Runtime.ImportModuleError: Unable to import module 'lambda_function': cannot import name '_imaging' from 'PIL' (/opt/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/PIL/__init__.py)
Doesn't matter what version of python or pillow. I tested it with 3.8+7.2.0, 3.8+10.1.0 and 3.11+10.1.0, didn't make a difference. How is something as basic as importing Image being a nightmare?

[radarhere]

Is this helpful? It's some old AWS documentation on how to use Pillow in a lambda - https://web.archive.org/web/20210126181708/https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/with-s3-example-deployment-pkg.html

[radarhere]

It is not uncommon for users to come here with installation problems like this. The cause of these problems is that Pillow is not a pure Python library, but contains C code as well. The standard first thing to try is to uninstall Pillow and install it again. That may not apply in your case.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57197283/aws-lambda-cannot-import-name-imaging-from-pil also suggests

• unzipping the relevant Pillow wheel and uploading those to your lambda, or
• using https://github.com/keithrozario/Klayers

[jasonrdunne]

Thanks, klayers does the trick, specifically this arn: arn:aws:lambda:us-east-1:770693421928:layer:Klayers-p38-Pillow:10