From: John Hammink on
On Jun 6, 12:40 am, pdlemper<no spam>@earthlink.net wrote:
> On the site
>    http://code.activestate.com/recipes/langs/python/
> there are several scripts for fractals.  See page five.
> These begin
>                         from PIL import Image
>
> This fails in my python 3.1.2
>
> Google reveals PIL is Python Imaging Library from
> pythonware.com
> According to their website PIL is not available beyond 2.6  : (
>
> Do I need a full GUI like tkinter to image a fractal ( on my
> python 3.1.2 )  ?    Is there any simpler option ?
> Thanks,               Dave WB3DWE

I'm a beginner pretty much, but I've just got Shai Vaingast's Newton-
Raphson fractal working. I'm using python 2.6.5.

from PIL import Image
from cmath import *

....

I don't need any windowing kit or anything. Maybe you can downgrade
your python? or set up an older environment for it.