AttributeError: module 'PIL.Image' has no attribute 'new'

Type of Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi Zero WH

Linux Kernel version

Linux raspberrypi 5.10.17+ #1414 Fri Apr 30 13:16:27 BST 2021 armv6l GNU/Linux

Expected behaviour

I’m expecting Python to run the code without errors. I inspected 10s of issues but didn’t find any solution. Before getting that error I was getting something like: No module named luma.led.matrix found or same for luma.core.

Actual behaviour

pi@raspberrypi:~/luma.led_matrix $ sudo python3 -m pip install luma.core luma.led_matrix
Looking in indexes: https://pypi.org/simple, https://www.piwheels.org/simple
Collecting luma.core
  Using cached https://www.piwheels.org/simple/luma-core/luma.core-2.3.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (71 kB)
Collecting luma.led_matrix
  Using cached https://www.piwheels.org/simple/luma-led-matrix/luma.led_matrix-1.5.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (19 kB)
Requirement already satisfied: cbor2 in /usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages (from luma.core) (5.4.2)
Requirement already satisfied: pillow>=4.0.0 in /usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages (from luma.core) (8.4.0)
Requirement already satisfied: spidev in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from luma.core) (3.4)
Requirement already satisfied: RPI.GPIO in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from luma.core) (0.7.0)
Requirement already satisfied: pyftdi in /usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages (from luma.core) (0.53.3)
Requirement already satisfied: smbus2 in /usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages (from luma.core) (0.4.1)
Requirement already satisfied: deprecated in /usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages (from luma.core) (1.2.13)
Installing collected packages: luma.core, luma.led-matrix
Successfully installed luma.core-2.3.1 luma.led-matrix-1.5.0
WARNING: Running pip as the 'root' user can result in broken permissions and conflicting behaviour with the system package manager. It is recommended to use a virtual environment instead: https://pip.pypa.io/warnings/venv
pi@raspberrypi:~/luma.led_matrix $ sudo python3 examples/matrix_demo.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "examples/matrix_demo.py", line 122, in <module>
    demo(args.cascaded, args.block_orientation, args.rotate, args.reverse_order)
  File "examples/matrix_demo.py", line 22, in demo
    rotate=rotate or 0, blocks_arranged_in_reverse_order=inreverse)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/luma/led_matrix/device.py", line 89, in __init__
    self.clear()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/luma/core/mixin.py", line 46, in clear
    self.display(Image.new(self.mode, self.size))
AttributeError: module 'PIL.Image' has no attribute 'new'

[unitythemaker]

I found the problem. The integrated was connected incorrectly.

[thijstriemstra]

I found the problem.

nice!

The integrated was connected incorrectly.

Can you be a little more specific? Maybe it helps others googling similar problems.