How to install Python "Pillow" module in a Node.js project?

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I’m making a Discord.js bot and also using python code to do some things. For running the python script I am using the “child_process” package and it is working fine. However my Python script is trying to import Pillow module - "from PIL import Image, ImageFont, ImageDraw ", but Pillow just isn’t getting installed.

I already tried running pip3 install Pillow --user in the shell however it still doesn’t work. I also added this line in the Python file - os.system('pip3 install Pillow'), but still nothing. Please someone help on how to install pillow. Btw my replit.nix file looks like this :-

{ pkgs }: {
  deps = [
    # Node.JS Template
    pkgs.python39Packages.pip
                           pkgs.nodejs-18_x
    pkgs.nodePackages.typescript-language-server
    pkgs.yarn
    pkgs.replitPackages.jest
    # Python Template
    pkgs.strace
    pkgs.python310Full
    pkgs.replitPackages.prybar-python310
    pkgs.replitPackages.stderred
  ];
  env = {
    PYTHON_LD_LIBRARY_PATH = pkgs.lib.makeLibraryPath [
      # Needed for pandas / numpy
      pkgs.stdenv.cc.cc.lib
      pkgs.zlib
      # Needed for pygame
      pkgs.glib
      # Needed for matplotlib
      pkgs.xorg.libX11
    ];
    PYTHONBIN = "${pkgs.python310Full}/bin/python3.10";
    LANG = "en_US.UTF-8";
    STDERREDBIN = "${pkgs.replitPackages.stderred}/bin/stderred";
    PRYBAR_PYTHON_BIN = "${pkgs.replitPackages.prybar-python310}/bin/prybar-python310";
  };
}
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It’s not possible to install and run a Python module inside of a Node.js project. They are two different programming languages, and are not compatible with each other.

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What does that output to the Console?

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Sure, it is… You can install any language on any Repl, no matter the template…

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5

You can do multiple though? If so, then I guess you could run commands, but it’d just be confusing

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When i add this line without the --user option, it doesn’t work. So I added --user in the end and this is what happens.

It prints this to the shell but after this is printed,

Command output: Collecting Pillow

Command output:   Downloading Pillow-10.0.0-cp39-cp39-manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl (3.4 MB)

Command output:      ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 3.4/3.4 MB 57.2 MB/s eta 0:00:00
Command output: 

Command output: Installing collected packages: Pillow

Command output: Successfully installed Pillow-10.0.0

Error executing command: --- Logging error ---

This is followed by a lot of errors and call stack. In the end this is printed :-

Error executing command: Message: '[present-rich] %s'
Arguments: (UpgradePrompt(old='22.2.2', new='23.1.2'),)

Error executing command: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/runner/Text-2-Beluga-1/./src/code/generate_chat.py", line 3, in <module>

Error executing command:     from PIL import Image, ImageFont, ImageDraw 
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'PIL'
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