Pillow version issue on Windows 10 with conda-forge

[dylanmikesell]

FYI, in case others have this issue.

I installed things on Windows 10 using Anaconda, I am running jupyter notebooks in VScode.

I ran into one issue with both of the example codes to run.

During the installation of someof the packages, specifically following the line

conda install numpy scipy pandas scikit-learn matplotlib seaborn pytorc

The pillow version that is installed is 8.4.0

pillow conda-forge/win-64::pillow-8.4.0-py310h22f3323_0

This caused problems with the obspy results when trying to plot (st.plot()) the data in the example, and when trying to download the MNIST data. I got the following error.

...
File [c:\Users\DMi\Anaconda3\envs\spin-ml\lib\site-packages\IPython\core\interactiveshell.py:3540](file:///C:/Users/DMi/Anaconda3/envs/spin-ml/lib/site-packages/IPython/core/interactiveshell.py:3540), in InteractiveShell.enable_matplotlib(self, gui)
...
    119             f"Core version: {getattr(core, 'PILLOW_VERSION', None)}\n"
    120             f"Pillow version: {__version__}"
    121         )

ImportError: DLL load failed while importing _imaging: The specified module could not be found.

The fix was to install pillow 9.9.0 with pip.

pip install pillow==9.0.0

This fixed the issue and things worked fine afterwards.